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...According to General Pastika, the commander, Zulkarnaen, helped organize the meetings near Solo, in central Java, where the Bali attack was planned. In transcripts of interviews with police seen by TIME, the convicted bombers said that electronics expert Dulmatin, a Malaysian, helped wire the bombs, installing four separate failsafe detonation switches for the giant car bomb. The prisoners said JI instructor Umar Patek packed the bomb's sacks of potassium chlorate and aluminum powder, while the teacher, Noordin Mohammed Top, was involved in logistics and strategy with the al-Qaeda go-between Hambali. The four men's faces have appeared...
...warring reports coincide with the onset of a presidential election season in which the way forward in Iraq will be a central point of contention. It's a sure bet that G.O.P. presumptive nominee Senator John McCain will wield the Pentagon's 66-page report as a bludgeon against those asserting the war has stalled and that U.S. troops should be withdrawn. Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic contender, will just as certainly use the GAO report as a stiletto to puncture the Administration's - and McCain's - contention that the troop "surge" is bringing victory in Iraq closer...
...sets over the Jadriya bridge in central Baghdad , groups of young men jostle each other, laughing wildly on the sidewalk; their cars parked in a line that stretches from one side of the Tigris River to the other. In a country now in its fifth year of war, the sight may be unexpected. But perhaps more startling is what they're drinking: beer. Local residents say that sort of activity hasn't occurred here in public since the first year of the war - now looked upon nostalgically as the year before life really...
...drama of the game got a boost when powerful electrical storms knocked out broadcasts for more than six minutes during the second half across most of Central Europe. In Berlin, fans at a Kreuzberg beer garden where both Turks and Germans had gathered to watch the game on an outdoor screen huddled around their mobile phones to follow the game on the tiny radios...
...last faculty Dean of Harvard College,” by no “accident.” Though Hammonds is tenured in both the History of Science and African and African American Studies departments, she comes to the College's top post from the University's central administration, while Harris, like those who previously took served as dean of undergraduate education, has been praised for his role within the Faculty...