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...this is home, and Magid began mobilizing his mosque to protect it. "There's no way you can be a quarter-citizen in this country," he told his congregants during Friday prayers soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. "You have to be a full citizen and defend it." For Magid, that meant working with the FBI. In early 2002, leaders of two Arab-American organizations who had been conferring with the agency on counterterrorism programs asked Magid and other local imams if they too would work with the bureau. The lawmen badly needed contacts among Washington's Muslims to help...
...first glance, it is an innocuous family snap of Jenkins with his wife Hitomi Soga and their first daughter Mika during a rare trip to the beach. But at the left of the frame, another sunbather is visible. Jenkins has identified the woman as Anocha Panjoy, a Thai citizen he says was abducted by North Korea in 1978. If true, it would represent the first verified case of state kidnapping by North Korea of someone from a country other than Japan or South Korea. In the book, Jenkins says Panjoy told him two other women were kidnapped along with...
...ALBERTO FUJIMORI, 67, fugitive ex-President of Peru, still popular among some for leading an early 1990s economic rebound; as he attempted to return to the country to seek re-election in defiance of an international arrest warrant; after five years in exile in Japan, where he is a citizen thanks to his Japanese-born emigrant parents; in Santiago, Chile. Fujimori faces up to 55 years in jail and $29 million in fines for alleged corruption and sanctioning of death squads during his 10-year rule...
...last month’s disaster that left over 3 million homeless and led to over 79,000 deaths, said Rabia G. Mir ’07. Mir, who was the main coordinator and master of ceremonies, said she was inspired to get involved because she is a Pakistani citizen. “For me this hit home,” she said. “It hit people that I grew up with and family members and I know I’m not the only one.” “It still hasn?...
...says. “I wanted to come by to see if you had any questions or concerns about the city, and to ask for your vote on Tuesday.”Murphy campaigns with a staff member—a self-described “concerned citizen,” Laurence Field, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979. Field carries a list of addresses in the area and together they consult it often, checking off residents as they travel door to door. Today, they are calling on homes they have not visited before. Over the course...