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Even by the standards of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the suicide bombing in Ramadi on Jan. 5 was stunning for its audacity. The bomber had blended into the ranks of Iraqi police recruits outside the Ramadi Glass and Ceramics Works before blowing up his explosive vest, loaded with ball bearings for maximum devastation. The blast killed two U.S. service members and more than 70 Iraqi police recruits--but it also turned out to be a deadly miscalculation by the jihadis and their leader, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Most of the victims were local Sunnis, and they were joining the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rebel Crack-Up? | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...assassination of a local police chief. After the tribesmen urged Sunni youths to join the local police, al-Zarqawi got his revenge. The instructors weren't going to make the same mistake they had made in Ramadi by allowing recruits to become an easy target for a suicide bomber, so they had them sign up in Baghdad. But al-Zarqawi's men were tipped off. Al-Qaeda ambushed the Sunnis' bus on the road and kidnapped the recruits. Their bodies have yet to be found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rebel Crack-Up? | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

...deliver one. In his first year in office, he was relatively restrained, punching hard but always calibrating his response to avoid a slap-down by the U.S. But after Sept. 11, the Bush Administration moved closer to Sharon's zero-tolerance view of Palestinian terrorism. So when a bomber killed 30 people at a Netanya hotel during Passover in 2002, Sharon went all out. He reinvaded the cities of the West Bank with brutal force, using the army's presence to get intelligence on the terrorists and to make arrests.He stepped up construction of a controversial barrier, started by Barak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lonely Warrior | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

...even facebook groups endorsed candidates. The “Yankee Empire,” for instance, supported Voith-Gadgil, who they wrote promised “a sincere effort to eliminate the Red-Sox-normative ethos of the campus, and improve the overall quality of life for Bronx Bomber fans.” (Facebook group “Red Sox Nation” endorsed Haddock-Riley.) Meanwhile, the “Students for the California Relocation of Harvard University” analyzed the candidates concluding, “John Haddock has more boldly defended our common goal, Magnus has received...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Through the Mire | 12/13/2005 | See Source »

Syriana is one of three new films, all meaty and intelligent, told in part from the view of a suicide bomber. Hany Abu-Assad's gnarly, poignant Paradise Now is set on the West Bank; Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Thriller That Thinks | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

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