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...Thailand's arrest of three Thai nationals in June and a Singaporean in May sent a chill through the country's balmy resort towns?police alleged the men were part of a Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist cell planning to commit Bali-style bombings in the tourist resorts of Pattaya and Phuket. Although the accused are in jail awaiting trial, a senior Thai intelligence source says the danger has not passed. An unidentified Thai believed to have planned the attacks remains at large and may still be able to carry them out. "We busted one cell but we know there...
Well, not the guy but certainly the guy they expected to find and who, they hope, will lead them to the guy. After Mahmud's arrest, say U.S. officials, he was taken to a site near Baghdad International Airport, where military and intelligence investigators began pumping him for information on the whereabouts of Saddam, his two sons Uday and Qusay, and the 23 other top henchmen still at large. As Saddam's closest adviser and consigliere--a source close to the family told TIME that even Saddam's sons needed Mahmud's permission to meet with their father--Mahmud...
...this boom has coincided with mounting restrictions on missionary efforts by the regimes of Islamic-majority countries and with swelling anti-Western militancy. The resulting tensions have sometimes erupted tragically: the past two years have seen the arrest and imprisonment of two American missionaries in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan and the apparently religiously motivated murders of four more in Yemen and Lebanon. The botched bombing last month of a Dutch-German missionary family in Tripoli, Lebanon, suggests the danger is not abating. Says Stan Guthrie, author of the book Missions in the Third Millennium: "People are beginning to count the costs...
...They come in, don't report to the local churches, stir up a hornet's nest and then quit town when the going gets tough. Why start a controversy if you're not there to face the brunt of it?" Seiple notes that after Curry's and Mercer's arrest in Afghanistan, "all of the other Christian organizations were expelled until the Taliban fell...
...FREED. THICH QUANG DO, 74, prominent Vietnamese Buddhist dissident; from house arrest; in Ho Chi Minh City. Do, a leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, had been confined to a monastery since 2001 for agitating for religious freedom and human rights. A Communist Party newspaper said Do was released because of the government's "humanitarian policies." But some observers speculated the authorities might be trying to blunt the strong international condemnation over the recent 13-year jailing of another dissident, Pham Hong...