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...Intelligence agents allegedly found his name on a money- transfer document from an al-Qaeda camp, and arrested him in Pakistan in February 2002, holding him in a windowless cell in Afghanistan until February 2003, when he was flown to Guantánamo. His family believes he was a victim of mistaken identity. Like all the estimated 680 inmates from 42 countries, Abbasi and Begg have not been charged and are not permitted lawyers. One captive, Mustafa Idr, an Algerian-born Bosnian citizen, wrote his wife via the Red Cross on Sept. 13: "I have been at this place...
...annual summer festival season, but were treated to an unwelcome drama, as half a dozen marquee events were canceled - including the legendary Avignon festival, shut down for the first time in its 57-year history. On Thursday, Avignon director Bernard Faivre d'Arcier somberly announced his program had fallen victim to unruly protests by striking performing-arts workers - strikes that torpedoed music festivals in Aix-en-Provence and La Rochelle earlier in the week. Many more events in France's annual calendar of 650 arts fests are also expected to fold, depriving hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers of their summer...
...Avenue and Magee Street and fired several shots into the vehicle before fleeing. Police have not recovered a weapon or issued any warrants in connection with the shooting. Pasquarello said the motive behind this incident is still unknown but that investigators think it was also a targeted act. The victim survived and has been released from the hospital...
Pasquarello declined to comment on a possible motive or whether this incident was related to either of the previous two. But the Cambridge Chronicle reported last week that Jean was fired earlier this spring for fighting with Dupree, the victim of the first shooting...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) officers arrested Anthony C. Washington at the Harvard Square Kiosk on charges of domestic assault and battery. The victim was transported to court to seek a restraining order...