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Some nights bring success. On one recent raid outside Samarra, U.S. forces arrested 14 suspected insurgents who essentially surrendered when American helicopters thundered out of the night sky. Other nights turn up only cold trails in dusty towns that appear on few maps. "Any of the sleepy villages could be a safe haven or a passage point," says Luong. "The bad guys don't have any true boundaries...
...even more violence in the city, as sectarianism takes root alongside increasing insurgent activity. The weeks ahead could be pivotal. On June 16, Sadr urged Shi'ites to join an annual Shi'ite pilgrimage to Samarra the first week of July. Since then rumors that Sadr himself may appear in Samarra have circulated throughout the city, ratcheting up tensions further still...
...rather different Chronicles of Narnia among their credits) is not one that goes for big laughs. It offers, instead, a steady mutter of eccentric situations and, better still, a whole bunch of glum and occasionally desperate characters whose depressive natures are hinted at but never boringly explicated. They appear and disappear rather casually in the story, which the director John Dahl (Red Rock West, The Last Seduction) paces expertly. His film moves not with the speed of light, but the speed of life - a little bit hesitantly, a little bit digressively. He's not ramrodding us into submission, not force...
...vigorously defended the integrity of legal proceedings there. Supporters of the Gitmo status quo-who include officials at the Department of Homeland Security and some in the Justice Department-worry that a transfer of terrorist suspects to the U.S. could give them legal rights-such as the right to appear in court with a lawyer-that would set off a new round of judicial proceedings that could go against the Administration. Those who argue that prisoners should remain at Gitmo also fear the consequences of allowing high-value detainees like 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed onto American soil...
...Upon learning of the Jan. 19, 2007, incident, government officials immediately ordered the seizure of computers that had sent or received the super-sensitive information. An inquiry was launched and a classified damage assessment completed last month. Weapons data does not appear to have fallen into enemy hands. But the extent to which classified nuclear secrets has remained on servers along various insecure Internet pathways remains an open-and troubling-question...