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The Hunt for a Hidden Bomb Factory
Mark Hosenball 9/22/2009 12:00:00 AM
Court documents made public over the weekend by federal authorities accused three men of making false statements to federal investigators when they were recently questioned about the alleged plot. Two of the men, Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan-born U.S. resident, and his father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, 53, live in Denver. The third man, 37-year-old Ahmad Wais Afzali, is an Afghan-born imam living in Queens. The elder Zazi has been released on bail; detention hearings for his son and Afzali are expected later this week. Lawyers for the suspects have said the men have done nothing wrong. Ron Kuby, a lawyer for Afzali, the Queens imam, said that his client had a good working relationship with NYPD officers in his neighborhood. Official papers say the NYPD considered the cleric a "source"; Kuby described him as a "community liaison."
More Than Just Hot Air
Daniel Gross 6/27/2009 12:00:00 AM
It only seems as though every company in America is downsizing. "We're hiring three or four people every week," says Prem Nath, senior vice president at Ascent Solar in Thornton, Colo. Spun out of a technology incubator in 2005, the company is ramping up production of thin-film energy-producing cells printed on malleable plastic, which it sells in credit-card-size patches (to power a BlackBerry) and in 15-foot strips for roofing material. Nath notes that the nearby National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) validated that the material converts about 10 percent of the sun's power into electricity. Ascent is installing production lines in a huge space behind the main office.
Shooting the Messenger
Mark Hosenball 6/13/2009 12:00:00 AM
In February, the Missouri Information Analysis Center, one of several "fusion" centers created after 9/11 to share intelligence among local, state and federal agencies, issued a "strategic report" warning about a resurgence of the "modern militia movement." Last week, on the same day that white supremacist James von Brunn allegedly killed a guard at Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum, Missouri's police chief informed legislators that the fusion center had suspended production of such reports. Why? Outcry from conservative activists, who felt they were being tarred too. Similarly, in April, Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives badgered the Department of Homeland Security into backing away from a report about growing far-right extremism.
Can Republicans Survive?
Johnnie L. Roberts 6/5/2009 12:00:00 AM
Joe Scarborough, host of the MSNBC news show "Morning Joe," laments that because of the rise of partisan media outlets, "a conservative can now wake up in the morning and never have his or her political views challenged." Scarborough is likely to make those conservatives a little anxious with his new book, "The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise." The morning news anchor spoke to NEWSWEEK's Johnnie L. Roberts about his book, Rush Limbaugh and how conservatives lost their way. (MSNBC is a Newsweek.com content partner.)
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How Many Sotomayor Opinions Were Overturned?
5/29/2009 12:00:00 AM
Have Judge Sotomayor's decisions really been overturned 80 percent of the time as Rush Limbaugh stated on May 26?
Indignity Index
5/16/2009 12:00:00 AM
12: So what if she was joking? If Rush Limbaugh had called Wanda Sykes "the 20th hijacker"—rather than the other way around—it'd be a scandal for weeks.