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...crucially, key figures have been killed. Abdel Kader Es Sayed, an Egyptian-born terrorist who authorities say was placed in charge of al-Qaeda's Italian operations in 2000, was reportedly killed in the American bombing campaign. So were at least two other members of the al-Qaeda high command. Mohammed Atef, an Egyptian who was believed to be al-Qaeda's top military commander, died in November, and Abu Jafar al-Jaziri, reputedly a logistics and operations chief, is thought to have been killed in January...
Born to a poor Uzbek farming family, Dostum had little formal education and worked in the natural-gas fields near Shibarghan before joining the military during communist rule in Afghanistan. By the mid-1980s he was in command first of a militia battalion, then of a division. His big break came with the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan in 1988-89. As the troop convoys headed home and the rebel mujahedin sharpened their knives, Dostum and his Soviet-funded army of tough Uzbek and Turkmen irregulars emerged as the only real mobile outfit the communist regime of President Najibullah could count...
...favorite of his essays was about Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. Streaks in sports, Gould noted, should command our appreciation not because a player gets a hot hand or a magic rhythm--these are cognitive illusions--but because his level of skill increases the odds of a lucky run. All long-lived phenomena are "games of a gambler playing with a limited stake against a house with infinite resources... DiMaggio activated the greatest and most unattainable dream of all humanity, the hope and chimera of all sages and shamans: he cheated death, at least for a while." This...
KABUL The battles roiling again among regional warlords have been a headache for interim President HAMID KARZAI. A Pashtun, Karzai has endured political sniping from those left out of the government. Former President BURHANUDDIN RABBANI, a Tajik, does not command forces but has scattered support. So does former Premier GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR, a Pashtun. In early May, the CIA tried to assassinate Hekmatyar--whom it considers a dangerous enemy of Karzai as well as of the U.S.--but he escaped the missile attack, which killed several supporters...
...membership. Still, only about 13,000 of Germany's 450,000 farms are registered as organic. In order to win that label, farmers must show they have not used chemicals or hormones for at least two years. Because of their supposed purity, meats such as organic sausage can command prices 30% higher than conventional products. According to Bartels, all the tainted feed came from a single producer in Lower Saxony, GS Agri. Nitrofen, which has been banned in the European Union since 1988 because it is believed to cause cancer, was found in 302 tons of organic wheat...