Amelia Gentleman: India forced to own up to a terrorist blemish
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- Amelia Gentleman: India forced to own up to a terrorist blemish
- Brown states need for new terrorism laws
- Vincent knows long and short of long ball
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Amelia Gentleman: India forced to own up to a terrorist blemish
International Herald Tribune - Jul 25, 2007
” There was also some sophistry in the claim that India was completely free from global terror networks. There may have been no significant involvement of Indian Muslims in terror activities outside the country, but internally India has been the victim of a rising wave of terror attacks. India's government has consistently blamed terrorist organizations based in Pakistan for the violence, rarely entertaining the idea in public that home-grown activists have been involved in any of the recent attacks - neither in the bombings of Mumbai's commuter train network nor in the attacks on Delhi's shopping markets. “It is a complete fiction that India has purveyed for years that every act of terrorism is perpetrated by individuals from Pakistan, and that none of its own people is involved,” said Ajai Shukla, a security analyst in Delhi. Ongoing anger over the killings of 2,500 Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, for example, had led to the recruitment of many Indian Muslims in that state to terror cells, Shukla said, a fact the government refused to recognize. Although police investigations are still under way and largely concealed from public scrutiny, terrorists behind the recent attacks in India appeared at the very least to have had support from local fundamentalist groups, said Ashok Mehta, another independent security analyst. “It is true that there was no direct involvement of Indian Muslims in terror activities outside India, but there is no doubt that fundamentalist groups like SIMI - the Students Islamic Movement of India - have been active here,” he said.
Brown states need for new terrorism laws
The Age - Jul 25, 2007
Another would allow police to apply to judges for extensionsbeyond 28 days. Officers would need to seek permission every weekand details of the case would need to be provided to parliament,Brown said. Britain, France and Germany will form a joint anti-terrorismcouncil to share experience and examine ways of tackling home grownextremism, Brown said. He said Britain would use a STG70 million ($A164. 2 million) fundto pay for community projects in areas where young people are atrisk of falling prey to extremist religious preachers. The proposed changes follow failed attacks last month, when apair of luxury cars packed with gas cylinders and nails were foundin central London and two men crashed a Jeep Cherokee loaded withfuel canisters and petrol into security barriers at Glasgowairport’s main terminal, setting it ablaze. In 2005, legislators rejected the government’s bid to allowpolice to detain suspects without charge for 90 days, forcing it toaccept the lower limit in former prime minister Tony Blair’s firstparliamentary defeat.
Vincent knows long and short of long ball
USA Today - Jul 25, 2007
Ruth set the single-season home run record four times in the 1920s and brought in the home run era. But he wasn’t always popular. “Coaches and older writers - people who had grown up in the dead-ball era - thought the home runs were a travesty to the game, especially managers,” Vincent says. “They said, ‘Home runs are ruining the game. ‘ You get the same thing now, ‘Home runs are ruining the game. ‘ This year it is the same song, different verse. ” But Bonds is getting ready to join an elite group in baseball.
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Bringing Home The Bacon
Forbes - Jul 25, 2007
Why? Where’s the upside for legislators? When it comes to getting re-elected, nothing feeds voters like pork. Under the present system, getting the most out of the federal government for the federal tax your district puts in is a crucial part of a legislator’s job. So who’s best at bringing home the bacon? It’s too early to see results for fiscal year 2008, the budget that’s being deliberated now. And we’re still in fiscal year 2007, so tax figures would be skewed for the current year. So we base our analysis on statistics from fiscal year 2006. Alaska, Hawaii, West Virginia, Mississippi and North Dakota are the winners, in that order. All of these states have low populations, meaning they have a higher percentage of pork per capita than, say, California… The problem, says Riedl: Pork is just an appetizer for Congress. “Lawmakers who vote for earmarks end up voting for large spending increases elsewhere as well,” he says. That helps explain why federal spending has grown 77% in the last 10 years.