Word: commandant
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...industries that barely existed in India three years ago: retail chains, fast-food restaurants, mobile-phone companies and especially call centers, data-processing firms and other businesses that do "back office" work for U.S. companies. KSA Technopak, a management-consulting firm in New Delhi, estimates that these young adults command $10.5 billion in cash to burn. The spending of these college grads is rising about 12% a year--more than twice the pace of the economy's growth...
...closer study of the patterns of resistance in Iraq suggest, however, that many of those doing the fighting are neither Baathists nor al-Qaeda, but are instead a broad group of mostly Sunni Iraqi nationalists taking guidance from militant Sunni clerics. Some are drawn into cell structures under the command of former security and intelligence officers; others operate through tribal and clan networks. Their motivations range from a religious-inflected nationalism resentful at the indignity of occupation - and fearful of the loss of Sunni privilege that had been guaranteed by the Baathists - to the tribal politics of vengeance...
...open an office in its capital city, San'a, TIME has learned. "Yemen is a hotbed" of Al Qaeda fighters, says a top U.S. counter-terror official. The FBI, along with the CIA and the U.S. military, is urgently trying to disrupt efforts by the jihadists to reconstitute command and control structures in parts of rural Yemen controlled by clans hostile to the government in San'a and sympathetic to Osama Bin Laden, whose own family roots are in Yemen...
...through the throng. Soldiers grabbed a crowbar to help the Iraqis prying the scorched metal of one of the cars to retrieve more bodies. The crowd demanded they step back. "Leave them," a man in a bloodied shirt ordered in Arabic, "they are Iraqis." The crowd backed up his command, chanting "God is great ." It took time for the soldiers to drive the mess of people back; they had to shout and order, and sometimes shove with their rifles...
...Died. Foday Sankoh, 65, leader of a rebel group in Sierra Leone infamous for its brutality; in Freetown, Sierra Leone. After receiving guerrilla warfare training in Libya with future ally Charles Taylor, Sankoh took command of the Revolutionary United Front, which, from 1991 to 2001, made a trademark of hacking off the limbs of rival fighters and noncombatants before U.N. intervention forced a cease-fire. Sankoh, arrested in 2000, died while waiting to face war crime charges and, according to David Crane, chief prosecutor for the U.N.-sponsored war crimes court for Sierra Leone, was "granted a peaceful end that...