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...poses. Ahmadinejad may be no Hitler, but nuclear arms in the hands of fanatics who have no compunction about setting them off among civilian populations is not something to be taken lightly. I became aware of terrorism at the age of 9 when I was jarred awake by a bomb going off outside my home, so I have a small appreciation for it. Ramana Sonty, Tenafly, New Jersey...
...roadside bomb blast that killed Australian soldier David Pearce in southern Afghanistan on Oct. 8 reflects a new turn in the tactics of Taliban fighters bent on recapturing the country. Regularly bested by Coalition forces in battle, the Taliban are making increasingly effective use of improvised explosive devices - and of intimidation...
...covert operation, the brainchild of a powerful, charismatic CIA operative known simply as the Colonel. It is the Colonel’s obsession to use a double agent, a philosophically disillusioned North Vietnamese man, to trick the Vietcong into thinking that some crazed commandos have stolen an atomic bomb and are trying to detonate it in Hanoi.Skip, the self-loathing, introverted CIA underling who acts as our protagonist, serves as the Colonel’s point man for this operation. The deception, the Colonel believes, will force the Vietcong’s hand and lead to victory for the Americans...
...Like all sequels, TOPOFF 4, the government's upcoming blockbuster counterterrorism exercise, running all this week, will be bigger, scarier and more expensive than the one before. Terrorists will smuggle radioactive material into the United States and then launch three coordinated dirty-bomb attacks in Portland, Phoenix and Guam. More than 15,000 people will participate, from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to local mayors, police officers and nurses. Professional make-up artists will create oozing "wounds" for volunteer victims, and equipment will be flown in from across the country to detect and contain the "contamination...
...people will dispute the carnage that took place in the Iraqi town of Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005: Women and children were killed in their homes alongside adult males by U.S. Marines. The Marines originally said that the civilians were killed as a result of a roadside bomb. TIME first brought the incident and its contradictions to light in March 2006, beginning a series of official investigations and contributing to the loud public debate on the deployment of the U.S. military in Iraq. The trouble, however, has been with coming up with a prosecutable case against the Marines involved...