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Former officials of Saddam's regime tend to have the technical know-how and the cash to mount operations. The organizers are generally midlevel officials from Saddam's extensive security apparatus. "They're colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors who are really the hard-core loyalists," U.S. Major General Raymond Ordierno, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, tells TIME. While the deposed dictator is the ideological inspiration for these loyalists, chances seem slim that he is directing attacks himself. "The communication involved," says a Pentagon official in Iraq, "would expose him too much to capture." Instead, U.S. officials believe, strategic direction...
...apparatus is called a femtosecond laser because it emits pulses of light in extremely short bursts—the equivalent of a millionth of a billionth of a second...
...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, "we have had trouble carrying out antiterrorism actions for lack of resources." That has simply reopened the Path, a group Peruvian war-history professor Alberto Bolivar, an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia...
...steward of a booming capitalist economy, while the Taiwanese electorate - having attained a democratic voice over their own destiny in the wake of Chiang's passing - demur, increasingly eschewing "One China" in favor of an independence-minded ethnic-Taiwanese nationalism. Madame Chiang and her husband, and the KMT political apparatus they brought with them from the mainland were, after all, exiles. And today's political landscape in Taiwan reflects their declining status relative to the ethnic-Taiwanese who have little interest in KMT claims to the seat of power in Beijing...
...vast, underdeveloped rural interior?a divide spotlighted at last week's Communist Party plenum in Beijing as a priority for action. The faster China grew, boosted by foreign investment and technology, the greater the wealth gap and the fault line in society. Then, as now, a pervasive internal security apparatus kept tabs on an evolving society. Chiang also sought a reform of personal conduct with his New Life movement, which tried to outlaw spitting, smoking and other bad behavior?just like the authorities last month decreeing a Public Morality...