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...generals frequently refer to Somalia as the "third front in the war on terror." Hundreds of foreign Islamist fighters are heeding calls from Osama bin Laden to go fight in Somalia, according to analysts in the region. And militant leader Aden Hashi Ayro, wounded in the January strikes, has now recovered and is leading a reconstituted and overtly anti-American U.I.C. rebellion in Mogadishu. There is little question that such dire assessments are becoming increasingly accurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalia's War Flares Up Again | 11/12/2007 | See Source »

Seven years ago, on October 12, 2000, the U.S.S. Cole was attacked in the Yemeni port of Aden, killing 17 American sailors. Two years later, to the day, a pair of suicide bombers killed 202 tourists and Indonesians in Bali. Neither attack would have the fateful consequences of September 11. But, in their own way, the Cole and the Bali attacks were important turning points in radical Islam's war on the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bombing Bookends to 9/11 | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...Here's the basic story... Born in Gujurat, the son of a school teacher, Desai goes abroad as a teenager (heading for Istanbul, not Aden, where Dhirubhai landed) to learn business. He returns a decade later to start a textile company, in partnership with a more cautious cousin who later leaves in a dispute over our hero's risky ways. He switches from cotton to polyester and makes his fortune, creating India's biggest company, in part by encouraging the rising middle class to invest in it (tens of thousands flock to his shareholder meetings). He suffers a stroke that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bollywood's New Guru | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

...tournament. Penn State has been a national powerhouse in recent years, recording only one loss to accompany a NCAA berth last season. The defending Big Ten conference champions are still waiting to get on a roll, however, having started the season with a mediocre 2-2-2 record. Aubrey Aden-Buie is a player to watch for the Nittany Lions. The junior striker has netted three goals in the last three games, including the game-winner last Sunday in a 1-0 victory over Bucknell. But Harvard realizes that it needs to concentrate on its own game plan, rather than...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Still Looking For Season’s First Win | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...Karl grabbed Aden and pushed him under a mattress. "I just yelled 'Get under there, lay on the floor,' and I got down with him,'' he says. Nikita and her boyfriend Michael managed to get into the hallway under mattresses, but Jenny was caught. "I heard this explosion and I looked up and saw the roof suddenly sucked 30 m up into the air, spinning around and around, and above it the sky was a weird electric blue. I felt myself being sucked upward," she says. "It was like a twister.'' Karl thought the worst: "I heard this scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weathering the Storms | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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