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...hour ride over some nasty terrain. The scenic route is on foot, a 30-km trek from Manebhanjan town. The route is dotted with rhododendron and magnolia forests and calls for many steep climbs, all of which will slow you down?the better to take in the stunning views. Expert trekkers can make it in 12 hours, but it's more fun to spread the trip across two days, allowing for a night's rest under the stars. There are several organized treks from Darjeeling, and you can get a bed at the government-owned trekker's bungalow at Sandakphu...
...Qaeda's main offshoot in Southeast Asia?or allowed it to train in areas under M.I.L.F. control: "We have had no link with Jemaah Islamiah." But he admits that plenty of non-Philippine radicals have visited M.I.L.F. camps in the past?especially before Sept. 11, 2001?including Indonesian explosives expert Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, who was killed a year ago in a shootout with government troops in the city of Cotabato. (Murad says al-Ghozi's J.I. connections weren't known when he was with the M.I.L.F.) He also admits that J.I. members may still be around...
...Regional security experts say a peace accord between Murad and Arroyo would probably spell the death knell for J.I. "It's simple," says Zachary Abuza, a Southeast Asia terrorism expert. "Without their bases in the Philippines, Jemaah Islamiah cannot survive." Murad goes so far as to say Americans can come on an inspection tour of his camps. "We have nothing to hide," he says with a smile. If he really wants peace, Murad will have to ensure that by the time any peace accord is nearing completion, that claim is true...
...Playing for time might not be Kim's best strategy. Some see the effort to bring North Korea's human-rights record front and center as a way to increase the pressure on Kim's regime?and ultimately to topple it. Says Gordon Flake, a North Korea expert at the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs in Washington: "The North Koreans aren't just paranoid to think that calls for improvements in human rights are synonymous with calls for regime change." U.S. lawmakers insist, however, that the legislation is meant only to address a humanitarian crisis. Says Congressman Jim Leach...
...trade union forecast the loss of 7,500 German jobs. "This is a serious loss for those regions," says Defense Minister Peter Struck. There was little criticism of the change in U.S. strategy. "Let's face it, the cold war is over," says Jean-Vincent Brisset, a military expert at France's Institute for International and Strategic Relations. "The U.S. forces came to save Europe, but their presence today doesn't fit with current doctrine." The larger issue is whether the recall, set to begin in 2006, will degrade a transatlantic alliance already damaged by Iraq...