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...attacks before and after Bali, a French investigator notes, "it's starting to look like a campaign of terror rather than a series of dissimilar attacks." Within two days last week, there were three terrorist attacks in the Philippines: two in the southern city of Zamboanga, one on a bus in Manila. Combined, they left 10 dead. (A bomb in Zamboanga earlier in the month killed an additional three people, including a U.S. Green Beret commando.) Before Bali, terrorists in Kuwait had killed an American Marine, and a French oil tanker off the shores of Yemen had been bombed...
...chairman of Europe's top outdoor-ad firm, JCDecaux, he has led an aggressive U.S. expansion of his "street furniture" business, which provides cities with bus shelters and public toilets in exchange for ad rights to the structures. By December, JCDecaux will start blanketing Chicago with 2,000 bus shelters in a deal expected to generate $850 million in ad revenue over 20 years. The firm has a similar agreement in Los Angeles, and Decaux, 43, is offering 3,500 shelters to New York City...
...other Tuesday morning, the women of the Grand Gaube sewing club would be swapping knitting patterns or recipes. But today the dozen Mauritian homemakers have piled into a bus fitted out with nine networked desktop computers for an introductory visit to cyberspace. Earlier visits by the cybercaravan to their small town have taught them how to use a mouse and a keyboard and how to navigate Windows. Now it's time to learn about the Web. It takes about half an hour before the women are surfing sites showcasing the latest fashion designs from overseas. "We're surprised how quickly...
...with five alleged terrorists supposedly responsible for bombing a Zamboanga shopping center last month. High-level military sources now doubt that the young men on television had the technical expertise required to execute this type of sophisticated attack. Police are still stumped about the Oct. 18 bombing of a bus in Manila. One possible lead, three tons of ammonium nitrate seized last week outside Manila, turned out to be part of a legitimate shipment of fertilizer. So far, Arroyo has been eager to take the fight to the bad guys. Her problem, like many other heads of state...
...Monday, Oct. 21, 5 p.m. The news comes over the wires that there has been a bus bombing at the Karkur junction, and the scene flashes back to mind; I know that road well...