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...Taliban soldiers were asked to turn out their pockets. A prisoner, waiting until Alliance commander Nadir Ali was near, suddenly produced a grenade and pulled the pin, killing himself and the commander. In a similar attack the same night, another prisoner killed himself and senior Hazara commander Saeed Asad. The remaining men were led into underground cells to join scores of other captured Taliban fighters. Despite the grenade attacks, the Alliance guards were not reinforced...
Harvard's No. 5 Andrew Merrill also took home a 3-0 victory, shutting out Asad Haque in the first game before closing...
...Though FBI officials said they knew of no other arrests in connection with the bombing, CNN said three men of Middle Eastern extraction were being questioned about the bombing. In New York, a law enforcement source told The Associated Press that one of the three men identified by CNN, Asad Siddiqy of New York City, is a cab driver in the New York borough of Queens...
...those facts seem to make no impression on the country's racists. Between 1988 and 1990 alone, the number of racially motivated incidents of harassment or violence reported to the police jumped from 4,383 to 6,359. "Racism is on the increase and is becoming more violent," says Asad Rehman, a caseworker in London's poor East...
...ideology of the Middle East is anti-Americanism," says Asad Abdul Rahman, a political scientist at Jordan University. "Regimes that are seen as nothing but stooges of the Americans could be toppled. That could be coupled with all kinds of violence, anti-American acts, the establishment of radical regimes." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is considered particularly exposed because he has allied himself so closely with the U.S. Says Amos Perlmutter, a political scientist at American University in Washington: "Mubarak will be in the cross hairs of every terrorist...