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...over a year and a half, the level of violence has been gradually stepped up. At the annual conference of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague last September, protesters hurled Molotov cocktails and chunks of pavement into the faces of Czech police officers. At a summit of the European Union in Goteborg, Sweden, last month, live rounds were fired by the police, and three protesters were injured, one seriously. In a story on the riots last week, TIME quoted Shaun Dey, an activist based in London: "The way things are going," he said, "somebody is going...
...JULY 18 NOON Two days after the summit, commentators concur Musharraf has emerged as the best spin master. But the meeting ended without tangible accomplishments. From the start, there was no formal agenda; the two sides weren't even able to decide how to describe the 54-year-old Kashmir imbroglio. (Pakistan wanted to call it a "dispute"; India insisted on the more watery "issue.") As television commentators haggle over semantic scraps and militants vow to step up their jihad, mourning continues in Kashmir?and not only for the recent dead. A few hundred people gather to lay a foundation...
...brick base in the night. The next day Inspector General Ashok Kumar Bhan confirms his men's involvement, claiming the mourners were trespassing on state-owned land under Section 447 of the Kashmir penal code. "Obviously they cannot erect such a thing on government land," he says. The summit is over and forgotten; the mourning in Kashmir?whatever sort is allowed?continues...
Intelligence officials from the G-8 countries have spent weeks exchanging ideas for containing the mayhem. The police have divided the city into a "yellow zone," where people will be free to roam but not demonstrate, and a "red zone," which will encircle the summit venue and be heavily barricaded. A shields-to-fists confrontation seems inevitable on Friday, when protesters will attempt to breach the red zone. "In Italy the police can't fire on the protesters," says a security official. "The problem comes if one of the protesters fires on the police...
Each national branch of AFA sends at least one of its members to attend the large anticapitalist demonstrations. The disorder committed by the group at each respective protest is coordinated by local AFA members. That's why, two weeks before the Goteborg summit, a team of Swedish police began shadowing radical cells in Denmark that were mobilizing for Goteborg. "We made extensive effort to contact the AFA people who were the ringleaders," says an official. After a bus carrying a group of suspicious Danes entered Sweden, a single cop went undercover to monitor their moves. "He trailed behind them, watched...