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...York City. Burma has been under military rule since 1962, and since the bloody suppression of a democracy uprising in 1988, the U.S. has incrementally reduced contacts with the regime and increased sanctions against it for its record of violating human rights and quashing democracy. Larry Dinger, the chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Rangoon, was quoted in the state-run Myanmar Times this week saying Washington wanted to make progress on "important issues" but would maintain sanctions "until concrete progress is made." The State Department has referred to the trip as a "fact-finding mission...
...Mindanao is almost-forgive the poor religious pun-the new Mecca for terrorism." JOSEPH MUSSOMELI, U.S. embassy chargé d'affaires in the Philippines, on the growth of militant activity in the country's largely Muslim southern island...
...Bonn to send his children to the school. He was suspected of credit-card fraud, but while searching his apartment police found bomb-making instructions, household materials that could be used to make explosives, and a handwritten will. But Alfred Stoffel, the prosecutor handling the case, declined to press charges. "What we found wasn't sufficient to take to court," he says. The senior investigator dismisses Stoffel's decision, saying: "We believe we had concrete clues." Investigators say that some of the people who frequent the mosque at the academy have had direct or indirect contact with al-Qaeda. Abdelwahab...