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...different from disarming it. Iraq has half a million unemployed soldiers, many of them expected to care for extended families, many of them having received no pay for two months and many of them with weapons. That's a combustible combination. On the road to Baghdad from the international airport last week, a twisted heap that had once been an Army humvee sat on the highway. Crouched behind a metal guardrail, an Iraqi had triggered a trip wire, detonating a charge. One American was killed. "The only person who knows how to do that is the Iraqi Baathist army," concludes...
...FRANCE AND BELGIUM Police said arrests in Paris and Deinze could be important breakthroughs in the war on terror. French police arrested two men with alleged ties to the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Moroccan Karim Mehdi, 34, was nabbed in the Charles de Gaulle Airport en route to the island of Réunion. He is said to have told interrogators his mission was to scout tourist targets for an attack similar to the Bali bombing last October, which killed 202 people. The next day, at the same airport, officials arrested German Christian Ganczarski...
Before his airport stunt made him a campus legend, B.J. had already experimented widely to find his place on campus...
...You’re living in a fantasy,” he said. “You will enter a world of hypocrisy…where your limo to the airport is a half an hour late…and it’s a Lincoln Town...
...think people are getting a bit too hysterical about the SARS thing,” Wickland wrote in an e-mail. “I’m more likely to die in a car accident headed to the airport here in Boston than to contract and die of SARS after arriving in Beijing...