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Outside, under a sliver of moon, the cell's surveillance teams are hard at work, monitoring firing positions for their next assault. Spotters circle the area in taxis; others pose as workmen walking home and flip hand signals to passing colleagues. They all report to Abu Ali, a former officer in the Fedayeen Saddam militia who is well schooled in guerrilla tactics. A tall, sinewy figure with a weathered face, Abu Ali makes no secret of his ambition to attack Americans: "I want to kill all Bush's soldiers until they leave Iraq or it becomes their desert graveyard...
...Iraq Survey Group, less than two miles away. The insurgents load three air-to-air rockets they have modified to launch from the ground, flash a signal with car headlights and disappear. A second team creeps in to fire the volley, while a security detail armed with assault rifles and machine guns forms a perimeter. Beyond these fighters, according to the cell's security chief, a ring of men with shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles and rocket-propelled grenades is watching for U.S. helicopters that might try to stop the assault...
CPD—which has jurisdiction over the case—classified the incident as an assault and battery...
...last incident of this nature—in which an undergraduate was groped while walking through Cambridge Common in October—was classified as an indecent assault...
...filed. Police still have no leads on the case, and neither does Tsang. Rumors have persisted that Tsang insulted the wrong sort of people. "I think that even if I pissed someone off, my words alone wouldn't have been such a big deal," he says. He views the assault as the cost of doing business in Hong Kong films. "No matter how you guard against it?if it's going to happen, it's going to happen," he says. "If you have three bodyguards, they'll have 10. You have guns, they'll have bombs...