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Sebastian Rotella, Bureau Chief
Sebastian Rotella, who starting this summer will be an international investigative correspondent based in Paris, has served as bureau chief in Paris and Buenos Aires and also covered the U.S.-Mexico border and several beats in Southern California. His awards include being named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in foreign reporting in 2006; the Maria Moors Cabot Prize of the Columbia University School of Journalism for career coverage of Latin America; and awards from the German Marshall Fund, the Overseas Press Club, Inter-American Press Assn. and other organizations. He is the author of the book Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border. EMAILOfficials look out for 'lone-wolf' militants and converts as new cases involve suspects from diverse backgrounds -- one man arrested recently is mentally ill, and another is from a privileged home.
The accused Al Qaeda figure, identified only by the alias Abu Doha, is to be released within days, in part because of a lack of hard evidence for his prosecution.
He has been detained for years as investigators struggle to prove his activities merit prosecution. An immigration panel ordered him freed after an effort to deport him to Jordan was blocked.