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...return fire with a DShK heavy machine gun. Then, from behind us, came a whomp of an explosion that I knew wasn't a mortar. Across a grassy field, flame and smoke belched up from what had been a taxicab. With a sickening realization we knew that a suicide bomber had struck. What I didn't know until I got to the scene was that one of the victims was a colleague, Paul Moran of the Australian Broadcasting Corp. He was the first journalist killed in Gulf War II. The most likely suspect: Ansar...
...week, we had more than two dozen journalists in the region. As you will see in the following pages, our colleagues very quickly witnessed the grimness of war. Last Saturday in northern Iraq, Michael Ware and photographer Kate Brooks were reporting on al-Qaeda-linked guerrillas when a suicide bomber detonated a taxi, killing five people, including an Australian cameraman. Early Sunday, Jim Lacey was sleeping in his tent in Camp Pennsylvania, in northern Kuwait, when he suddenly heard loud bangs. Two grenades had exploded 10 yards away, in the tents housing officers of the 101st Airborne. More than...
...agents suspect that there are Hamas sympathizers among the 1,000 Islamic extremists they are monitoring in the U.S. Worried that a U.S.-Iraq war will radicalize other young Muslims living in the U.S., FBI behavioral scientists are searching for psychological cues that someone could become a suicide bomber. Additionally, federal and local law-enforcement officers are closely tracking thefts of explosives, such as those used in Hamas backpack bombs, and unusual sales of fertilizer, chemicals and fuel that could be used to make a truck bomb...
...MILF has officially disowned the 37-year-old Muklis. But Philippine intelligence officials say the Afghanistan-trained bomber still heads the SOG, which has a record of terrorist attacks on civilians in urban areas. Sources tell Time that shortly after the beginning of the army offensive in February, Muklis, in hiding in Lanao del Sur province, was contacted by SOG personnel to plan retaliatory strikes. If this is true, it's an ominous prospect for the Philippines...
...Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s. He then returned home to Malaysia, police say, to set up JI cells. Azahari's technical prowess has made him invaluable: he wrote a 50-page bombmaking manual, a copy of which Indonesian police seized in a suspected bomber's house in Solo last December. In one of the chapters, Azahari recommends that potassium chloride be used with TNT to enhance the intensity of the blast, a characteristic of the main Bali bomb. Another chapter shows how to use a cell phone as a detonator, a method used...