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...problem in Western jurisprudence since Socrates was given hemlock to relieve Athens of his irritating views. The cartoon flap suggested that at least some British Muslim citizens would like to upend the whole system. Yet there was widespread support, including among Muslims, for the conviction of Abu Hamza al-Masri, a hook-armed cleric who turned his mosque in Finsbury Park, London, into a recruiting station for al-Qaeda. He was sentenced to seven years in jail for inciting murder and racial hatred, based on hours of videotaped sermons in which he advocated the killing of nonbelievers - "for any reason...
...they denied that any bodies had been removed or that any foreigners had been in the compound. But some Pakistani intelligence officials began telling media outlets last week they believe as many as four leading terrorists, including al-Zawahiri's son-in-law and Abu Khabab al-Masri, a top al-Qaeda bombmaker, died in the strike. The U.S. is still uncertain if DNA was recovered from the scene to allow experts to positively identify any terrorists killed there or how the IDs were made. Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told TIME late last week that so far investigators have...
...killed as many as four al-Qaeda operatives. Pakistan had previously claimed that the strike, which killed 18 civilians and provoked anti-U.S. protests, had missed its intended target, Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's deputy. Among the operatives believed to have been killed were ABU KHABAB AL-MASRI, left, a top bombmaker who ran a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. Pakistani officials say that the strike also killed ABU UBAYDA AL-MISRI, an al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan, and ABDUL RAHMAN AL-MAGHREBI--son-in-law of al-Zawahiri...
...press conference with Rice in Berlin, Germany's new Chancellor, Angela Merkel, said the Bush Administration has admitted that U.S. agents "erroneously" abducted Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent who they believed had terrorist ties. Rice would only say that when mistakes are made, Washington would "rectify them." El-Masri, who filed a suit in U.S. federal court last week against former CIA Director George Tenet and three private airline companies, claims that agents seized him on the Serbian-Macedonian border in 2003 and held him in Afghanistan for five months...
...course of pursuing its war on terror. But the reports are putting pressure on some erstwhile allies. Germany's new foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and its former Interior Minister, Otto Schily, could face parliamentary investigations for failing to reveal that they knew about a German national, Khaled el-Masri, who German prosecutors say was abducted allegedly by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity and flown to Afghanistan where he was imprisoned and interrogated for five months. El Masri said he was tortured, and is now suing the CIA and its former director George Tenet over the incident...