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...Bush, it is al-Qaeda." The remarks, made at an off-the-record conference, were leaked in the Italian press, and Sir Ivor, facing the displeasure of his Foreign Office masters for committing the sin of candor, disowned the comments. But now, as the soot settles in the London Underground, the words hang again...
...rail stations in Luton and London and personal documents found at the scenes of the London explosions, police have identified the amiable 22-year-old his contemporaries called Kaki as Shehzed Tanweer, who traveled from Leeds to London on July 7, boarded a Circle Line train on the London Underground in the direction of Aldgate station and, eight minutes into his journey, detonated an explosive charge in his rucksack. As the police investigation into the bombings continues, a conversation is taking place on streets and in cafés, mosques and church halls, playgrounds and council chambers. Its purpose...
Benedetta Ciaccia, 30, an Italian-born business analyst, was among thousands of commuters on the way to work on July 7 as suicide bombers blew themselves up on three London Underground trains and a bus. Her friends and relatives have not heard from her since, and she was not among the 47 victims who had been positively identified nine days later. "We're still waiting," Fiaz Bhatti, Ciaccia's fiancé, told TIME last week. During the wait, scores of police, medical and forensic experts were engaged in the grim but necessary task of trying to establish the identity...
...peasants' plight turned into a civil-rights cause in Beijing after an underground DVD depicting the Ansai county crackdown began circulating in the capital. Zhu Jiuhu, one of China's most prominent defense attorneys, took up the cause in May when he tried to lodge a lawsuit against the Shaanxi government on behalf of drillers and investors. The suit was rejected by a provincial court on grounds that the evidence presented was "not objective." About two months ago, when Zhu visited the province to meet with peasants to prepare an appeal, police arrested him for "disturbing social order." As with...
...four explosions in London last Thursday targeted Underground trains and a double-decker bus during the morning rush hour, killing at least 52 people and wounding more than...