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...Pakistani government officials have been vocal with their frustration of what they call a lack of concrete evidence linking the group, which has strong ties to the Pakistani military intelligence community, to the terrorist attacks, despite intercepted mobile-phone conversations between the attackers and their handlers in Pakistan. Lashkar-e-Taiba was founded with the assistance of the directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in 1990 to serve as a proxy fighter in the disputed territory of Kashmir. The ISI has been repeatedly accused by U.S. officials of maintaining links to the terrorist group, which was involved in an attack...
...completely negated by the oppressive regularity of the underlying beats. The production is slick but entirely unimaginative. The first six tracks on the album all begin with the same technique, a four-beat repetition of the first measure of the instrumental track followed immediately by the full instrumental and vocal tracks. The album is entirely devoid of live instrumentation, as if it had emerged of its own volition from a primordial soup of ProTools loops on some highly-paid producer’s laptop. Common’s flow once sounded smooth and natural over the wide variety of musical...
...particular interest to investigators. In December she was among several people arrested, but eventually released, on suspicion that they were planning to break a convicted jihadist out of prison. If her visibility turns out to have aided Belgian cops in breaking up a jihadist plot, El Aroud's vocal radicalism may prompt future plotters to avoid her like the plague...
...landmark arch the faces the historic Taj Mahal hotel, where gunmen had holed themselves up for three days. Amid the press of bodies were a few scattered pockets of space and light - either candle-lit shrines left by the public in vigil or camera crews surrounded by the vocal and vociferous crowd. They called for an inchoate assortment of things: the heads of bungling politicians, the end of taxes, the bombing of Pakistan. Similar rallies took place in all of India's major cities, echoing solidarity and outrage. "We're all Mumbaikars now," was a common refrain on both posters...
...response to vocal student concerns, Flier allocated roughly 25 minutes to a discussion on conflict of interest policies at a town hall meeting two weeks ago. Other topics addressed in the meeting included housing needs for non-traditional students and use of the Harvard Catalyst, a cross-school initiative providing resources to all of Harvard’s divisions...