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...Wolfowitz says that the U.S. must not pressure Indonesia to crack down on terrorists. After a half-century of living under various autocracies and dictatorships, the Indonesians are leery of giving police too much power. "The Indonesians have been slow to arrest people," Wolfowitz acknowledges. "You get into difficult judgments - we would say that the evidence is there and that they're simply too concerned about the possibility, which is real, that it will be misunderstood by their public as simply a cracking down on people for their religious beliefs, which happen to be the beliefs of a great majority...
...teeming urban setting like Peshawar, surrounded by innocent civilians, the U.S. would not be able to use its massive firepower to get them. That said, antiterrorism efforts in Pakistan have scored two big hits: the March capture of al-Qaeda operations chief Abu Zubaydah and last month's arrest of Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks...
When attorney general John Ashcroft suggested that the American public form a giant neighborhood-watch service after last year's terrorist attacks, people in the Portland, Ore., area must have been paying attention. The arrest last week of four U.S. citizens accused of conspiring to join al-Qaeda was the culmination of yearlong cooperation among a clutch of curious neighbors, more than 100 fbi agents and an alert deputy sheriff. Officials have accused Jeffrey Leon Battle, 32; Patrice Lumumba Ford, 31; and Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal, 22, of trying to travel to Afghanistan late last year to support al-Qaeda. (They...
...sinned remains unclear. But the company, which grows orchids and sells flower seedlings, is certainly being punished. Trading in Hong Kong-listed Euro-Asia Agricultural (Holdings) shares has been suspended since Sept. 30; the stock price had plummeted 86% since May, to less than $0.05. Since Yang's arrest, the company looks very much like it is imploding. Four top officials, including the vice-chairman, resigned in the last two weeks citing "personal reasons," according to company statements. The chief executive officer stepped down in September. The company also disclosed that a creditor demanded the repayment of a $3.8-million...
...officer arrested 26-year-old Yuan Hanhui of Cambridge, Mass. at the Science Center after he refused to leave the building. Hanhui is charged with assault and battery on a police officer, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest...