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...merits more economic aid. The U.S. State Department calls Uzbekistan an "authoritarian state with limited civil rights." A day after the government fingered the HUT, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a scathing 300-page report alleging that the Karimov regime's campaign of religious persecution had "resulted in the arrest, torture, public degradation and incarceration in grossly inhumane conditions of an estimated 7,000 people" over the past decade. Most of those arrested were allegedly HUT members. In many respects, the attacks were not aimed at classic al-Qaeda targets, adding to the skepticism over the government's claims...
...organization's 55-year history, brought total membership to 26. Catching Up with ETA FRANCE French police, in conjunction with the Spanish Civil Guard, arrested three suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA. Officers detained Félix Ignacio Esparza Luri - who acting Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said was ETA's logistics chief - in the southwestern city of Dax . Former ETA leader Félix Alberto López de la Calle, who had been on the run since escaping house arrest in November 2000, was apprehended in the western town of Angoulême, along with suspected...
...connections were too vague for Spanish investigators to arrest Zougam, who was not suspected of criminal activity. But law-enforcement authorities in Morocco began tracking him on his frequent visits to his old neighborhood in Tangiers. There he may have heard the preachings of Sheik Mohammed Fizazi, the spiritual leader of Salafia Jihadia, a group of Moroccan radicals said by some investigators to have ties to al-Qaeda. In August 2003 Fizazi was sentenced to 30 years in jail for inspiring the terrorists who bombed five sites in Casablanca, including a Spanish club, in May 2003. Zougam's name surfaced...
...operative who moved easily in Islamist circles, not a terrorist kingpin. Moroccan officials told TIME they considered him an intermediary between various cells in that country. "His name came up very often," said a Moroccan official. "But we had no evidence he had done anything, so we could not arrest...
...ARRESTED. CHARLES MCCOY, JR., 28, suspect in the 24 high-way shootings that have plagued Ohio motorists for months and left one woman dead; after a tip led authorities to a motel where he was staying; in Las Vegas. An arrest warrant charged McCoy with felonious assault in a shooting on an occupied house, but he is expected to face more serious charges, possibly including murder, when he's returned to Ohio...