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Because having the wrong identity can be fatal, more and more Baghdadis are taking steps to adopt new ones. The market for counterfeit IDs is booming. Since the start of this year, the asking price has doubled to $100 per card. Iraqi IDs are primitive, with data written by hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Your Name Can Be a Death Sentence | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

(2 of 2) The misgivings have grown as the Kremlin has reasserted control over Russia's energy resources. The rise of Rosneft is typical. Founded in 1993, Rosneft was for years an insignificant holding company overseeing a jumble of small oil fields. Since getting hold of the Yukos assets, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crude Power | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

But they appear likely to reject the Western demand that Iran suspend its small-scale enrichment experiments before any talks can be held. Instead, pragmatic elements close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have indicated a willingness to accept a deal in which Iran agrees, for a defined period of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting for Iran's Answer | 6/22/2006 | See Source »

Two months had passed since 9/11, and at the highest levels of government, officials were worrying about a second wave of attacks. CIA Director George Tenet was briefing Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in the White House Situation Room on the agency's latest concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Untold Story of al-Qaeda's Plot to Attack the Subway | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

Earlier this month, Chavez received his first shipment of 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles from Russia; he also purchased a license to produce Kalashnikovs in Venezuela. In the wake of the recently passed U.S. arms ban against his country, Chavez is looking to acquire Russian helicopters and fighter aircraft - and is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Venezuela's War Games | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

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