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Egypt agrees dates for referendum, polls: activist

Egypt agrees dates for referendum, polls: activist Egypt's military leaders will hold a referendum on constitutional change on March 19, a parliamentary election in June and a presidential poll six weeks later, a youth activist said on Monday after meeting them. Zyad El-Elaily and 16 other members of the Coalition of Revolutionary Youth which took part in protests to oust President Hosni Mubarak, said he had met three members of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Sunday.

US citizen recalls 'humiliating' post-9/11 arrest

US citizen recalls 'humiliating' post-9/11 arrest Handcuffed and marched through Washington's Dulles International Airport in his Muslim clothing, the man with the long, dark beard could only imagine what people were thinking. That scene unfolded in March 2003, a year and a half after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. One of the four planes hijacked in 2001 took off from Dulles. "I could only assume that they thought I was a terrorist," Abdullah al-Kidd recalled in an interview with The Associated Press. Al-Kidd called his airport arrest "one of the Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/02/27/state/n050729S55.DTL#ixzz1FNhn1mVr

Official: US Paying Taliban to Reduce Afghan Attacks -- News from Antiwar.com

Official: US Paying Taliban to Reduce Afghan Attacks -- News from Antiwar.com According to a well-placed but unnamed Afghan official, the United States military and other NATO allies are directly bribing Afghan warlords and even some top members of the Taliban to reduce attacks on their supply convoys and generally reduce the level of violence overall.