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...unknown man like Abouhalima (''Mahmud the Red'') is considered a threat to the entire world and deserves a TIME cover, then you will have to issue an encyclopedia to focus on the macrothreats to the U.S. and other countries. Murat Sinag Berkeley, California...
...would be shelved, owing, a statement from his office said, to a "lack of evidence that any crime was committed by the persons placed under formal investigation." Comfort, then, for the McCanns - named by Portuguese police as official suspects in the case last fall - as well as for Robert Murat, the Portuguese-based Briton named as a suspect almost immediately after Madeleine's disappearance in May 2007. The three, who strenuously denied any involvement, are now cleared of suspicion. "We welcome the news today," Kate McCann said Monday in a brief statement to reporters near the couple's central England...
...suspects amid reports that Portuguese police had found Madeleine's DNA in the trunk of a car rented almost a month after her disappearance - won an apology and $1.1 million from Britain's Express Newspapers, after its tabloids falsely suggested the parents were responsible for Madeleine's death. Murat, for his part, received $1.2 million in damages from a string of British newspapers earlier this month over stories claiming, again incorrectly, he was involved in the child's disappearance...
...from clear how strong the evidence is against the couple. Robert Murat, a resident of Praia da Luz, was named an arguido at the start of the investigation but has protested his innocence and has never faced any charges. Press reports in Portugal and the U.K. have suggested that new forensic evidence may finally provide stronger clues about what might have happened to Madeleine. Yet false leads and dashed hopes have characterized the investigation almost from the start. Philomena McCann, the sister of Gerry McCann, told Britain's Sky News that the Portuguese police were suggesting that her sister...
...been spared a direct attack by the new generation of Islamic terrorists, but it cannot avoid the universal struggle to balance civil liberties with security. Allegations surfaced recently, for instance, that the former Social Democratic government of Gerhard Schröder deliberately left German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay despite the absence of evidence against him. Current Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was Schröder's chief of staff at the time, says he acted appropriately with the knowledge available to him then...