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...that worsened under the capitalist reforms of the 1990s. Since locking up Shining Path's leadership a decade ago, Peru "has not been sufficiently agile in implementing development programs," admits Interior Minister Fernando Rospigliosi, who oversees antiterrorism efforts. That's a key reason why Shining Path has reloaded its AK-47s now. But the group has also been aided in no small part by government hubris. After crowing that he'd vanquished Shining Path in the early '90s, then-President Alberto Fujimori enervated Peru's antiterrorism apparatus - turning his intelligence police instead on political opponents. As a result, says Rospigliosi...
...classmate of Plame's during the year rookie spies spend at the Farm, the Camp Peary, Va., school where CIA recruits learn how to read code and sneak through checkpoints and memorize secret documents. At the Farm, Plame stood out, he recalls, for being the best shot with an AK-47 in the entire class. "She will no longer be safe traveling overseas," he says. "I liken that to the knee-capping of an athlete...
...They also believe that Turkish interests in Iraq - especially Ankara's eagerness to prevent Kurds from establishing political autonomy there - will get a boost if Turkey sends troops. "There is an urgent need to restore peace and order," says deputy Suleyman Gunduz of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK). He voted no to the U.S. request before the war, but will back the current bill and expects many of his colleagues to do the same. Diplomats tell TIME the government will first seek broad authorization, leaving the details until later. - By Andrew Purvis and Pelin Turgut Terror Convictions BELGIUM...
...another RPG attack, on Sept. 11, which destroyed a U.S. semi-trailer and a large transport truck. It shows 50 people dancing by the flames, chanting "we give our blood and souls for you Saddam." A Fedayeen member, his face unshrouded, then shoots the flaming wreck twice with an AK-47. The Anbar branch also claims responsibility for this ambush...
...lately turned on the regime. According to a Fedayeen officer who provides logistics and intelligence to an active guerrilla cell, the suspected turncoat was killed when two men in a pickup truck, their yeshmaghs wrapped around their faces, pulled up to the man's car and sprayed it with AK-47 fire before speeding...