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...enforcement takes the threat seriously, but rejects the raf comparison. "The raf was a group of people with a much more sophisticated intellectual background," the official says. But the radical right is increasingly forming loose, cell-like structures, following a strategy popularized by the British neo-Nazi organization Combat 18, which promotes "leaderless resistance" through a decentralized network of activists. Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which monitors extremist groups, said in its 2002 report that while the membership of extreme-right organizations is falling, their willingness to use violence is increasing. According to the report, there...
...prelude to a campaign season dominated, initially at least, by questions over how the U.S. found itself locked into its current Iraq quandary. U.S. commander Lt.-Gen. Ricardo Sanchez announced Thursday that in the past week alone, four of his men were killed and 46 were wounded in combat. That was before three more were killed at Tikrit Thursday, and more were wounded at Khaldiya. And the Bush administration is not currently expecting substantial levels of military or financial support to lighten the U.S. load. Had postwar Iraq at least offered the spectacle of grateful Iraqis cheering...
...with the Saudis, work with them to bring about change and not alienate them. Indeed, when President Bush spoke to Abdullah for 20 minutes by phone last week, say U.S. and Saudi sources, he went out of his way to compliment the Prince on Saudi Arabia's efforts to combat terrorism. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, Eric Roston, Elaine Shannon, Michael Weisskopf and Adam Zagorin/Washington; Amanda Bower/New York; Bruce Crumley/Paris; Gorill Husby/Dar es Salaam; Andrew Perrin/Bangkok; Andrew Purvis/Sarajevo; and Christopher Shulgan and Leigh Anne Williams/Toronto
...Pakistan and Afghanistan. U.S. military officials in Iraq acknow0ledge that they have failed to bottle up the southern and western borders with Saudi Arabia and Syria, which infiltrators can easily cross. Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told reporters last week that because of combat demands on U.S. forces, the borders are being guarded by just a 14,000-person Iraqi security force...
...Michael J. Anderson, of Lynch's Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive), the manager of a traveling carnival plying the Dust Bowl in 1934, sets the scene: ever since God gave dominion over the world to "the crafty ape he called man," good and evil have clashed in secret, magical combat. "To each generation," he intones, "was born a creature of light and a creature of darkness." Now the goodies and baddies are preparing for a final battle. In one efficient monologue Anderson sets up the show's mythology--and informs us that Carnivale is officially weird...