For Public Figures in Netherlands, Terror Becomes a Personal Concern
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- For Public Figures in Netherlands, Terror Becomes a Personal Concern
- A sigh of relief in Indonesia
- Australia | Terror show | Economist.com
- Land of hope and soap
- Room Service: Santo’s Higham Farm Hotel, Main Road, Higham,…
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For Public Figures in Netherlands, Terror Becomes a Personal Concern
Washington Post – Nov 10, 2005
Dutch investigators have traced many of the threats to a local network of young Muslim radicals that police and news media have dubbed the Hofstad Group. Authorities estimate that the network has about 30 followers, primarily Dutch-born teenagers and men in their twenties who are of Moroccan descent. Analysts and investigators said the network appears to be a home grown. Many of its members became radicalized in local mosques or by viewing extremist material on the Internet. The most famous member is 19-year-old Samir Azzouz of Amsterdam, who was arrested last year after police said they found plans on his home computer to attack a nuclear installation. Azzouz was released after a judge ruled that there was not enough evidence to convict him. He was rearrested last month, along with six other suspects in three cities, as part of a continuing investigation.
A sigh of relief in Indonesia
International Herald Tribune – Nov 10, 2005
But their ideology – a pure Islamic state; hatred of the West and Jews – lives on. It does not take a large organization to carry out deadly attacks. Home-grown terrorist groups, acting on their own, are capable. The London Underground bombings demonstrated that. Earlier this week, police in Sydney and Melbourne arrested 17 men who were charged with planning terrorist attacks. Fewer than half the men had ever received any training with Al Qaeda, an Australian intelligence official said. Azhari was born in Malaysia, and as a teenager went to Australia, where he studied mechanical engineering at Adelaide University.
Australia | Terror show | Economist.com
economist.com – Nov 10, 2005
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Australia
Terror in Australia
Nov 10th 2005
From The Economist print edition
THE government of John Howard has issued many dark warnings of a possible home-grown terrorist attack in Australia. Yet few Australians have seemed concerned by the prospect—a happy state of complacency that was jolted early on November 8th, when police and security agents swooped in Sydney and Melbourne, and arrested 17 people on terrorism charges. What exactly they were suspected to have been plotting was unclear, though a minister for the state of New South Wales claimed Australia had been saved from a “potentially catastrophic terrorist act”. At any rate, this was Australia’s biggest-ever counter-terrorism operation. It has also raised the heat over a plan to introduce tougher anti-terrorism laws.
Land of hope and soap
The Age – Nov 10, 2005
It’s aproject that people have slaved over, sometimes for years,certainly for many months. Now it’s poised for public presentationand, for those involved, that might mean applause and bouquets, awithering barrage of brickbats or, maybe worse, indifference. If launching a new production is invariably nerve-racking,introducing a home-grown one now is especially daunting. Theclimate is harsh, even hostile, to fledgling dramas. Even if aproducer was convinced that he or she had created the best thingsince SeaChange, or the next Home and Away, thelitany of local dramas that have died unhappy deaths in recentyears would loom like a spectre. The Alice, Last Man Standing,Fireflies, CrashBurn, Marshall Law and TheCooks all struggled through single seasons, their time on-airmired in criticism. MDA struggled through two seasons anda sickly revival.
Room Service: Santo’s Higham Farm Hotel, Main Road, Higham,…
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 10, 2005
In fact, the duck is tender and delicious and the apples are tiny, the size of olives and sweet – wonderful. Just in case we’ve forgotten that this restaurant is Italian, another waiter appears at intervals, brandishing an outsize pepper grinder. From the same menu, we note that the home-grown herbs are from Santo’s garden. It’s my role on these hotel jaunts to choose the less adventurous dishes, partly because I prefer them, although sometimes (as now) I wish I’d asked for what my husband has chosen – Chicken on Chekchuka, which, according to the menu, is a North African dish that’s honey-glazed, with peppers, garlic, tomato, courgette and egg. Also on the table d’hôte menu are beef bourguignon (with a 10oz rib eye steak), lobster thermidor, described as large, a rustic vegetable paella and my choice: red mullet saltimbocca, with sage, Parma ham and balsamic dressing. There’s also a more expensive à la carte. As for puddings, I love the assiette of three different, homemade ice creams, while my husband only grudgingly lets me taste his homemade ginger biscuit cheesecake.
Masco at Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference -…
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 10, 2005
We have this year approximately $13 billion in sales. We have 62,000 employees, over 130 manufacturing facilities located in 18 countries around the world. We have more brand-name products serving the building and home improvement industry than any other company in the world and a number of those, as Armando mentioned, are relatively well-known consumer brands, KraftMaid, Merillat kitchen cabinets, Behr paint, Delta and Hot Springs or rather Delta and Hansgrohe and Peerless faucets, Arrow stapling guns, just to name a few of those products. Part of the strategy that Masco has followed for many years is to strive for leadership, leadership being number one within the respective market niche that we serve as well as translating that leadership into above-average growth and above-average profit margins in the mid teens. We estimate currently that over 90% of our sales are represented by products that are number one within their respective market niche. We have reorganized our business into five platforms, cabinets, plumbing, services, architectural products, windows, and other products. If you look at each one of those groups, you can see in the chart on the lower left that we have achieved significant growth in the last five years as well as over a longer period a time in all of our platforms.