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...elections that begin this week. On Wednesday the law minister in the Muslim majority state, Mushtaq Ahmed Lone, and his three bodyguards were gunned down at an election rally. Indian security officials said that an Islamic militant, disguised as a woman and seated in a segregated area, took an AK-47 from under his robe and opened fire as Lone rose to speak. Several groups claimed to be behind the attack. One of them, Al-Arifeen, a new group, said: "We will continue such attacks on all who are participating in the polls." MEANWHILE Hairy Monsters U.S. special forces...
...that they had basically flown into a gigantic stadium and scrambled out, vulnerable and exposed, in the home team's end zone. From up in the grandstands--the half-mile-high mountains ringing them on three sides--an unknown number of al-Qaeda fighters began peppering the Americans with AK-47 fire. Operation Anaconda had just begun--and Perez and his comrades were already playing defense...
Everyone who works at the Detroit crossings knows that just one lapse could let a crate of AK-47s or Semtex, a cache of anthrax spores or nerve gas, even a dirty bomb or a "nuke-in-the-box"--a stolen nuclear warhead--into the American heartland. "We don't even talk about what happens if something gets through," says Anderson. "Every day, we say we're going out there and stop everything." It's a far more serious business than when he signed on as a customs inspector in 1971, and his employment interview consisted of two questions...
Things went wrong from the start. Al-Qaeda men showed up for the ride with AK-47s and grenades bulging under their tribal robes. They refused to allow Niazi to ride shotgun up front, where he had a chance to escape, and wedged him between two Uzbeks in the back. As the van neared the checkpoint where the ambush awaited, Niazi started to sweat. The police roadblock was hidden by a rocky hill, and when the driver took the curve, he had to slam hard on the brakes. About 70 cops were hidden behind large boulders on one side...