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...right side of the superpower that facilitated their victory, such verbal commitment has meant relatively little on the ground. Even the new prime minister, Hamid Karzai, appeared ready six weeks ago to simply let Mullah Omar fade into obscurity, before the Americans twisted his arm into promising to arrest the fugitive Taliban leader...
...shocking circumstances surrounding the death of Ayatullah Mohammed Hosseini Shirazi, however, make it clear that Iran's hard-liners still have the upper hand--and are as repressive as ever. Shirazi, 75, had been under house arrest for years for such crimes as questioning the dogma that one cleric should hold supreme power--and for doubting Ayatullah Ali Khamenei's qualifications for that job. Shirazi's followers have fared even worse, frequently being tossed into prison...
...British have perfected long-term deep penetration into enemy territory by small groups of men. But nobody thinks that's more than a small trump in a hand stuffed with them. Once the game moves away from military action, however, the U.S. really does need allies. Washington can't arrest terrorists in Italy on its own or reform Saudi Arabia's education system on its own. Powerful though it is, the U.S. needs help. And in other pressing international matters, the limits of American military power come into even sharper focus. The week before Christmas, the Argentine government collapsed...
...EUROPEAN UNION The Net Tightens Luck finally ran out for Tarek Maaroufi when Belgian police arrested the terror suspect on evidence he engaged in logistical and recruiting work for al-Qaeda. Maaroufi had avoided arrest despite being repeatedly implicated in recent inquiries. Italy linked Maaroufi to an al-Qaeda cell in Milan that was planning attacks on France, and his name surfaced in several Belgian investigations. Authorities in Brussels finally obtained sufficient evidence to arrest him on charges of membership of a terrorist organization and recruiting for a foreign army, which is illegal in Belgium. Meanwhile, in Britain, police took...
...died, he had consented to commemorate a postage stamp for the late Raj Kapoor, great showman of Indian movies. It was going to be a glitzy Bombay function and illness was not going to deter the 90-year-old actor from celebrating a colleague's life. But a cardiac arrest did. And thus ended the six-decade career of a film laboratory assistant who became one of Bollywood's most celebrated heroes. My fondest memory of Kumar is from 1958 when he acted in one of my father's films, Mr. X, playing a man who discovers a secret brew...