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/ 23 August 2003

Inside story of the hunt for Bin Laden

Early in March, intelligence agents searching the western deserts of Pakistan thought they had finally tracked down the world’s most wanted man. A convoy was spotted racing along one of the remote smugglers’ routes which winds down from southern Afghanistan, through the sand dunes of Pakistani Baluchistan and into Iran. American intelligence agents had a tip that Osama bin Laden was in the group.

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/ 23 August 2003

Homecoming of Rwanda’s killers

It is called a demobilisation centre but a better term for what takes place inside the corrugated tin classrooms of Mutobo may be genocide rehab. Nine years after the slaughter, Rwanda’s killers are coming home and this centre in Ruhengeri province in the north-west of the country is their first stop.

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/ 22 August 2003

No pardon for Boesak

Allan Boesak, the liberation cleric and founder member of UDF, jailed for fraud and theft of donor money in 2000, did not qualify for a presidential pardon, according to the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Development.

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/ 22 August 2003

Jazz ke ya rona

"How about a jazz radio station? Yeah, why not?" It’s a simplistic statement sure, but when it is expressed and discussed at the launch of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, be sure that it may not just be talk, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.