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When George Bush talks about Iraq, his standard response is "We're making good progress." But as Tuesday's terror strike on UN headquarters in Baghdad underscored, America's enemies in Iraq have good reason to be satisfied with their own, grisly progress. The truck-bomb attack that killed 15 people, including UN Special Representative Sergio Vieira De Mello, was simply the latest brutal calling card from what appears to be an increasingly confident and tactically diverse insurgency. President Bush left no doubt that the attacks have not shaken his resolve, vowing hours after the bombing that "these killers will...
...briefing in the dilapidated police headquarters in Jakarta late last month, senior Indonesian police officials announced that Islamic militants would probably soon detonate a bomb in the capital and tacitly acknowledged that they could do little to prevent it. A captured Islamic militant confessed that he had delivered two carloads of bombmaking materials to the capital. And a police raid in the central Java city of Semarang uncovered papers outlining areas of Jakarta earmarked for attack by Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a network allied to al-Qaeda and tied to last year's Bali bombing...
...officials were proved right last week when a car bomb exploded in the driveway of the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta, leaving 10 dead and 150 wounded. Within days, police said they had identified the bomber--by virtue of a severed head recovered from the building. But could more have been done to prevent the attack? A source close to the investigation says four JI suspects arrested in the Semarang raid identified the Marriott as one of many potential targets. Police insist they tightened security around those targets, but Marriott managers say they were left in the dark...
...attack has raised fears of a new wave of bombings in the country with the world's largest Muslim population. Indonesian police believe JI has at least one other cache of explosives in the city. Sources say a suspected JI agent arrested in April confessed that he had delivered 660 lbs. to two senior JI operatives. Early analysis of the composition and design of the Marriott bomb suggests one of those operatives, Malaysian geophysicist and alleged JI bombmeister Azahari Husin, played a key role in the attack. "The momentum is still going for JI," says Mick Keelty, head...
...several occasions in the 1960s, while Epps was touring with the Harvard Glee Club, the group traveled to perform in locales where blacks were unwelcome. On one occasion in 1965, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Elliot Forbes ’40 reportedly received bomb threats because of plans for Epps to participate in a Birmingham, Ala., concert. Epps was “quietly, deeply upset” when the Glee Club performed without him at the show, Glee Club Secretary William White ’65 said at the time...