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...students of its two madrasahs, or seminaries, have openly defied the authorities: they have occupied a nearby children's library to protest government plans to raze illegal mosques built on state-owned land; set up their own Shari'a court; and have even kidnapped policemen and terrorized neighboring areas with a Taliban-like vigilante campaign against anything they consider un-Islamic. On July 3, that defiance erupted into a bloody clash between security forces and students when the authorities tried to cordon off the madrasah complex as part of a plan to shut it down. The next day, a shoot...
...native of Plymouth, Mass., Miller has long thought about the possibility of moving back to the area where she grew up, but it was the reaching out of those within the Crimson lacrosse network—and a vacancy finally presenting itself—that ultimately lured Miller to Cambridge...
...back of my mind I’ve always thought about the Harvard job because I grew up in the area,” she said. “I know a lot of the older alums…it was a little bit of people who used to play lacrosse contacting me and my contacting the athletic department...
...find that BAE had committed a significant violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, it would automatically raise questions about how rigorously the company is safe-guarding classified information, adhering to export controls and meeting its other obligations under U.S. law," says a leading Washington expert in the area, who did not want his name used because of the political sensitivity of the topic...
...insurgency has turned against al-Qaeda in Iraq, the fringe group - it comprises no more than 5% of the insurgency, according to U.S. intelligence estimates - that is responsible for the most spectacular bombings. The anti-Qaeda rebellion began in Anbar, formerly the most dangerous province in the country, an area famously described as "lost" to the terrorists in a Marine intelligence report leaked to the press in 2006. "Actually, the first tentative steps in Anbar were taken in 2005," Petraeus told me over dinner one evening. "The Abu Mahal tribe out by the Syrian border turned against al-Qaeda...