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...Indonesia: The Jakarta Bomb...
With a roar and a rolling shockwave that shattered windows and trembled rooftops across northern Baghdad this morning the grinding guerrilla war entered a new and more lethal phase. Shortly before 11 am local time a bomb in a Coaster minivan outside the Jordanian embassy detonated with horrific force, unleashing a fireball that incinerated a car full of people passing by. Those in front of the building were killed instantly, the clothes wrenched from their bodies and flung in tufts like singed confetti, their flesh torched. More than 50 others inside the compound or in the family homes nearby were...
...Amrozi Youngest brother of Mukhlas and supposed purchaser of the van used to carry the main bomb Trial Status: Verdict to be announced on August 7th Most dramatic moment: On Friday, Amrozi sang a song of his own composition from jail: You can do jihad anywhere Until the spirit has left the body Kick out the mean Zionists Kick out the filthy people of the crucifix Ali Imron Middle brother and accused conspirator Trial Status: Ongoing Most dramatic moment: None. Unlike his two brothers, Imron appears in court in a suit and tie and has expressed remorse for his actions
...playing on an Xbox in my family room, I had never piloted an airplane. And the B-1 is no ordinary plane, given its $300 million price tag and its unparalleled capabilities: Supersonic speed and a payload of 24 two-thousand-lb guided weapons in its three separate bomb bays. The bomber dropped a third of the powerful JDAMs used in the most recent Gulf War even though it flew only about one percent of the sorties. Quite a machine for my maiden flight...
...reasonable force." The rebels had lined the square in front of the Glorietta mall they occupied with explosives to deter just such an option. (Just to make sure the deterrence wasn't lost on those monitoring the situation, two mutineers wandered away from the Glorietta to cover one bomb with a plastic garbage bag when rain began to fall.) As the afternoon wore on, more troops and tanks crowded around the square. But negotiations were also being furiously pursued. The mutineers' mall saw an endless train of negotiators - senators, military brass, even family members. The 5 p.m. deadline was extended...