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...Arab volunteers who had fought the Russians in Afghanistan with the support of the CIA and Arab intelligence agencies, and were either unwilling or unable to return home. They maintained training camps in Afghanistan, the Sudan, Yemen and elsewhere, where they trained fighters for Islamist armies as far afield as Chechnya and western China. Many of these operatives were also trained and deployed to create the infrastructure for and execute terrorist actions against targets associated with the U.S. all over the world...
...Nobody knows this better than the six young women who are surrogate mothers to orangutan babies brought in for rehabilitation at the Balikpapan Orangutan Foundation on the west coast of Borneo. The orangutans, most of whom have been confiscated from illegal wildlife traders, some of them as far afield as Japan and Taiwan, are often in a state of shock, having just seen their mothers killed by poachers. "There's no difference between human babies and the orangutans," says Wiwiek, an open-faced 24-year-old surrogate mother dressed in her working clothes, a white jumpsuit and green rubber boots...
...China's armed forces modernize, they continue to test their Pacific boundaries--and the U.S. keeps beefing up surveillance. China patrols ever farther afield, routinely laying claim to virtually all of the South China Sea, causing conflict with neighbors like Vietnam and the Philippines, which also claim the tiny islets there (and the oil fields beneath...
...task. That day Vice President Dick Cheney, a man who has already suffered four heart attacks, was hospitalized after complaining of chest pains. Also on Monday, a 15-year-old boy opened fire in a Santee, Calif. school, killing two of his fellow students and wounding 13 others. Further afield, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon completed the appointments to his new cabinet, and 60 people died when a bridge collapsed in Portugal. Meanwhile, in Palm Beach County, Fl. a dolphin which had been rescued from a shark attack last year was returned to the sea after recovering from its injuries...
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