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...giving off sparks. A participant at one of the meetings paraphrases Clarke's attitude this way: "These people are trying to kill us. I could give a f___ if Musharraf was democratically elected. What I do care about is Pakistan's support for the Taliban and turning a blind eye to this terrorist cancer growing in their neighbor's backyard...
...more democratic regime in Iraq as a boost to their own hopes for political change - though the country's hard-line conservative clerics would oppose it for exactly the same reason. In the event of an attack, could Iran be persuaded to quietly share intelligence or turn a blind eye to the use of its airspace, as it did during the first Gulf War? "If it makes Iran a player, the answer would likely be yes," says one Tehran political analyst...
...thing. Finding him is another. For months Afghan government and U.S. military sources have believed that the man who gave sanctuary to Osama bin Laden has found refuge of his own in an arc of inaccessible mountains north of Kandahar. It is a place where even a half-blind cleric on the run has factors in his favor: a harsh environment, strong tribal ties, loyal friends and a population increasingly disposed to hate the Americans. Little wonder, says a senior Kandahar police commander, that after months of searching, the coalition forces "are not one inch closer to getting hold...
...more precise whereabouts of the Taliban chieftain--or else benefit from more dumb luck than they have had so far. Why not just invade and scour the area where the locals say he is roaming? "It's strong Taliban country," notes a senior U.S. military official. A blind search would be too dangerous to undertake for just...
PROJECTILES No one likes rubber bullets--not the people being fired at nor the people doing the firing. "It's very easy to put out an eye, to blind someone," says Glenn Shwaery, director of the Nonlethal Technology Innovation Center. "How do you redesign a projectile to avoid that?" The answer is, with softer, flatter bullets, beanbags and sponges that spread out the impact and hit like an open-handed slap from Andre the Giant. Shwaery's team is looking into an even more radical solution: "tunable" bullets that can be adjusted in the field to be harder or softer...