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...Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, furious that a battalion base had been overrun, declared that the four soldiers killed that night "deserved to die." He imposed martial law in three of the five southern provinces and acknowledged that the south harbors an Islamic insurgent movement bent on creating unrest within Thailand. His security adviser, retired General Kitti Rattanachaya, claimed the attacks last week were the work of a little-known group, the Gerakan Mujahideen Islam Pattani (G.M.I.P.), which has close ties to the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia?a militant Islamic outfit with links to more established terror groups Jemaah Islamiah...
...dictator left his palaces for a series of hovels, from which he was removed and taken into a detention cell. His days and nights of perpetual motion have ceased. But in Tikrit-as well as Samarra, Baghdad, Fallujah, and other cities that experienced violence and unrest in the wake of Saddam's apprehension-the tension remains...
Over 19 months ago, Jianli, who had been blacklisted by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) after Tiananmen Square, made a fateful decision to return to his country. He heard about the labor unrest in northeastern China and wanted to observe it for himself. After the PRC detained him on April 26, 2002, it had the opportunity to press what could have been a routine case against him for illegal entry. Instead, by systematically and harshly violating Jianli’s human rights and subsequently charging him with espionage, the PRC transformed his case into an international...
...anti-American lunacy” are apt to challenge its triumph. This week’s issue of U.S. News & World Report noted that security police had apparently taken such advice to heart and were indeed searching for less violent techniques to deal with incipient anti-FTAA unrest; but one Miami shop clerk claimed to be packing a .357 magnum just in case. “The entire city was paved over with riot cops,” exclaimed Harvard student Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04, who found herself unceremoniously jailed during the demonstrations...
...appointed by the council. Al-Sistani, though Iranian by birth, is the most senior Shi'ite religious leader in Iraq. There was no chance that the council would openly oppose his will, and--because his tolerance of the occupation acts as a buffer between coalition forces and potential unrest among the Shi'ites--no chance that the CPA would force the council to do so. "Al-Sistani," says Flynt Leverett, a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council, "is seen as apolitical, so he carries a lot of respect...