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...four have consistently maintained their innocence in the case, which has languished ever since the government tried but failed to convict one S.L.A. figure in the robbery 25 years ago. It was revived with the 1999 arrest of Olson. According to the Sacramento district attorney, the FBI has used new forensic techniques to link the lead pellets in Opsahl's abdomen to shotgun shells recovered from an S.L.A. safe house. Olson's guilty plea in the bombing plot reportedly confirmed what Hearst told the FBI decades ago--that the loot from the robbery helped finance subsequent S.L.A. crimes...
...tape's narrator, according to authorities, is Hashim bin Abas, a 40-year-old Singaporean electrical repairman now under arrest. The video, along with notes and maps, was discovered by U.S. forces in the rubble of an al-Qaeda leader's house in Afghanistan in mid-December. Singapore police are now holding 13 men they say were part of a regional terrorist group trained and coordinated by al-Qaeda. The police claim the group was plotting to attack U.S. targets in Singapore, and two al-Qaeda operatives flew into Singapore in October to give advice on how to make...
...legitimate than the peddling of skin magazines. (Look under the stack of computer journals.) So when Lai Kwong-keung, a 38-year-old Hong Kong trader, was indicted last month in Fujian province for bringing 33,000 Bibles into China, his mainland-born wife was puzzled. "How can you arrest someone," she asks, "for bringing in books that are available all over China...
...arrest highlights China's rough crackdown on religion. While previous Bible couriers have been deported for their secret work, Lai could face the death penalty for smuggling "cult publications" and will be up for trial as early as this week. In a worrisome precedent set last month, leaders of a Protestant denomination similar to Lai's were sentenced to death for holding underground meetings. Last fall, more than a dozen secret churches in eastern China were razed, leaving piles of rubble and crucifixes scattered throughout Fujian and Jiangsu provinces...
...Afghan government and were mysteriously released. Interim leader Hamid Karzai called for the formation of a national army to promote political and social stability. KASHMIR On a Knife Edge India massed its forces along the border with Pakistan declaring it was ready for war, despite the arrest in Pakistan of more than 200 extremists. In a televised speech, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf condemned terrorism, banned some militant groups and announced stricter regulation of religious schools. But he said he would not hand over Pakistani citizens to India. India issued a list of demands, including the closure of alleged terrorist training...