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...proof of the rebels' growing strength was found in the wreckage of the fire fight. Other violence last week showed a weakening of President Hamid Karzai's central government. A bomb attack on a bus in southern Afghanistan killed at least 18 civilians. Afghan authorities blame members of the former Taliban and al-Qaeda for the blast, and possibly a ruthless veteran of Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who seems to be consolidating power among the insurgents. In Kabul, police arrested three al-Qaeda suspects who allegedly planned to blow up the heavily fortified U.S. embassy...
...know any better. They've never been held hostage by a twitching madman at the business end of a methamphetamine binge, who changes lanes like Elton John changes costumes and thinks cries of "slow down" mean "go faster." It's unlikely they have seen what the side of a bus can do when it becomes intimate with a tuk tuk's flimsy frame...
...Bangkok and know what I'm getting into. Against all better judgment, I've undertaken this ride to determine just what it is about these rust-ridden motortrikes that commands such fondness, and whether the ubiquitous vehicles can survive a future full of cheap air-conditioned taxis, gleaming bus fleets, Skytrains, subways and road-safety committees...
...India suffered its own historic terrorist strike nearly nine years earlier. Between 1:28 and 3:35 p.m. on March 12, 1993, a group of terrorists and gangsters trained in Pakistani camps detonated 10 bombs across Bombay. Among the targets: the local stock exchange, crowded marketplaces, a double-decker bus, hotels, offices and the airport. The toll: 257 people killed or missing, 713 injured and a city of 14 million temporarily paralyzed with fear. The similarities to the attacks that would come later in the U.S. are one of the most striking aspects of S. Hussain Zaidi's account, Black...
...It’s tough,” co-captain Dylan Patterson said. ‘You travel two hours, get off the bus and all of a sudden you have to play a team that you’re supposed to blow away...