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...request of U.S. officials, who suspect the men of being members of the terrorist network. Authorities believe one, Mohammed Ali Ahssan al-Moayyed, is a high-ranking fundraiser for al-Qaeda, though neither is thought to have been directly involved in Sept. 11. Both the U.S. and Yemen have requested extradition, but the Justice Ministry said the men would likely be sent...
...KILLED. MARTHA MYERS, 57, WILLIAM KOEHN, 60 and KATHLEEN GARIETY, 53, U.S. doctor and administrators, respectively, who ran a Baptist mission hospital in a tiny town about 160 kilometers south of Yemen's capital, Sana; by a lone gunman described by Yemeni officials as an "Islamic extremist"; in Jibla, Yemen. A revered figure in the town, Myers and her staff treated some 40,000 patients a year...
Maybe we're living in the past because we feel all freaked out about the future. Turned off by coverage of terrorism in Bali and Israel, unrest in Venezuela, nukes in North Korea or arms laundering in Yemen, we gobbled up huge scoops of comfort news. Reading the newspaper this year was like reading that newspaper they hand out at Colonial Williamsburg, the one with headlines like SILVERSMITH THROWN IN GAOL FOR STEALING GOODIE SMITH'S PEANUT SOUPE RECIPE. O.K., I've never read that newspaper. But in the New York Times, which I occasionally read during boring meetings...
...weapons of mass destruction" and posed a "grave and growing danger." On last week's evidence, he's right. Within a few days, the following things happened: Spanish and American forces detained and then released a cargo of North Korean Scud missiles hidden in a stateless vessel bound for Yemen. The shipment was legal, but given the tinderbox nature of Yemeni society, irresponsible. Then Pyongyang announced that it intended to restart work on nuclear reactors that had been closed down since a crisis with the U.S. in 1994; spent fuel from the reactors could be used to build nuclear bombs...
...living in the past because we feel all freaked out about the future. It just feels good to retreat to topics previously explored and controversies already settled. Instead of devoting extra airtime to terrorism in Bali and Israel, unrest in Venezuela, nukes in North Korea or arms laundering in Yemen, we gobble up huge scoops of recycled news. Reading the newspapers this year was like settling back with some frozen-in-time Austrian Zeitung whose headline declares governor of Carinthia denies he worships Hitler. Wait, I think that really was in the Austrian papers this year...