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...Khan's computer files reveal nuclear bomb blueprints...
...hiding on Jolo with Abu Sayyaf] walking on the beach in front of me, there would be almost nothing I could do without Philippine assistance." The U.S. soldiers are high-value targets for the terrorists, however - in 2002 Green Beret Sergeant Mark Jackson was killed by an Abu Sayyaf bomb on the island of Mindanao. Outside the camp they wear full body armor and pack a fearsome array of weapons...
...Causes for Concern Neither U.S. nor Philippine officials are claiming the fight is over. Abu Sayyaf members have vowed never to end their struggle and claim the group is rebuilding. Earlier this year terrorists attempted to bomb soft targets in Zamboanga city. The city's police director, Colonel Lurimer Detran, believes an attack in April, when bombs were planted at the Catholic cathedral and at a bank in the city, was definitely the work of Abu Sayyaf operatives. "We identified the suspects from composite sketches," he says. While no one was hurt in those attacks, on May 30 a bomb...
...Hopes that Zuma might provide stronger leadership on pivotal issues for the continent were not boosted by his performance at the conference. He called food prices "a time bomb" that governments could do little about - a limp response when 30 million Africans face hardship if more food is not grown and sold at affordable prices...
...Iranians haven't been shy about making clear what's at stake. If the U.S. or Israel so much as drops a bomb on one of its reactors or its military training camps, Iran will shut down Gulf oil exports by launching a barrage of Chinese Silkworm missiles on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Arab oil facilities. In the worst case scenario, seventeen million barrels of oil would come off world markets...