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...middle of the road last week to commiserate over the "outing" of Madelyne Gorman Toogood. The woman caught thrashing her 4-year-old on a surveillance video in Indiana is also, as it turns out, an Irish Traveler. And though they don't know her, they know what her arrest means: 15 minutes of grueling fame for a community that thrives on secrecy...
...Osama bin Laden. Since 1995 al-Qaeda cells seem to have imitated the G.I.A.'s tactics: using car theft, credit-card fraud and document forgery to fund terror plots; recruiting and indoctrinating alienated youths and petty crooks from Arab communities, then using their larceny to fund jihad. Police arresting cell members for crimes like these often never make the link between the offense and the cause it serves. In the Paris Métro case, prosecutors say Bensaïd, Belkacem and a group of helpers mounted the series of attacks between July and October, 1995. The four-hour list...
When they raced to the microphones earlier this month to announce they had broken up an al-Qaeda cell in the U.S., federal officials were full of confidence. The case seemed just about perfect, from the fact that no shots were fired during the arrest to the cooperation from local Muslims. Indeed, FBI sources tell TIME that additional agents are being dispatched to Yemen to try to snap cuffs on Kamal Derwish and Jaber Elbaneh, two other members of the alleged cell and U.S.-born Yemenis thought to be hiding somewhere in their ancestral homeland. The agents, who will operate...
...economic ruin. His offspring haven't raised the bar. Accustomed to privileges of power, including sweetheart business deals, Aye Zaw Win and the grandsons were cast by prosecutors as gangsters who plotted revolt when authorities threatened their luxurious lifestyles. As for Ne Win, 91, he's been under house arrest since the plot was discovered in March. There's doubt he will ever be tried. It's likely the death sentences will be commuted to life in prison by the Supreme Court. Still, despised as Burma's current leaders are, they've given Ne Win's clan a long-awaited...
When a local group in Santa Cruz, Calif., distributed medical marijuana to sick patients in front of city hall two weeks ago as the mayor looked on, it conjured up images of Woodstock, not of present-day America. But the event, to protest the federal government’s arrest of two local cannabis growers, is an encouraging sign of marijuana’s growing acceptance. The federal government ought to respect states’ decisions about marijuana, rather than blindly enforcing federal statutes...