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...meant to be a simple raid to roust some "illegal settlers." On March 27 Tsadiqui Hussain, the lean and weary police chief of Faisalabad, Pakistan, was told by superiors that his officers were needed for some routine arrests. Hussain didn't think much of it. Faisalabad, in the center of Punjab province, is a humming mill town, and illegal immigrants are always turning up there in search of work. But shortly after midnight, some unexpected visitors came striding into Hussain's colonial-era office. They were members of Pakistani military intelligence, accompanied by American CIA and FBI personnel wearing bulletproof...
Israel does not raid refugee camps and deny basic human rights (such as access to clean drinking water, food, sanitation and security) to Palestinians because they may be of a darker shade than most Israelis. Israel’s actions, rather, stem from a misconception that Israeli security can be guaranteed through the muting and virtual subjugation of the Palestinian peoples. That the Israeli soldiers conducting raids into the occupied territories are “whiter” than the Palestinians they are uprooting is merely coincidental, and therefore inconsequential...
...forces are seeking to undertake another raid inside Pakistan, sources in Islamabad tell TIME, like the one that captured Osama bin Laden's lieutenant, Abu Zubaydah, two weeks ago. This time, however, they are after bigger quarry: bin Laden himself. Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca, the sources say, was in Islamabad last month to ask Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for permission to make the raid on Pakistan's mountainous border with Afghanistan. But Musharraf has still not given his consent. He is hesitant, the sources say, because the fierce tribes of the region are well armed and sympathetic...
...looked nearly hopeless, U.S. authorities now seem convinced that their top terror suspect is hiding in the lawless borderland territory. That conviction may have been bolstered by a cache of documents and computer discs found in Abu Zubaydah's lair in central Pakistan. If intelligence from the Abu Zubaydah raid has added to the U.S. evidence that bin Laden is hiding in the borderlands, Musharraf's decision may get tougher...
...huge wall that could be used for postering has only one sign on it, advertising an upcoming play at Dudley House. The Poland Spring jug is empty. The freezer has bags of ice and two lonely containers of sherbet. Hungry grad students would fare no better in a fridge raid. The massive fridge’s shelves contain nothing except two half-empty Sprite bottles and a huge bowl of coffee creamers ready to fill the coffee cups of stressed graduate students. “Some people might like to add a coffee machine—and a piano...