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...with the reverberations of the killing of terrorist leader Abu Mousab Al Zarqawi last night in an airstrike in Iraq. There is a huge-if brief-sense of relief about finally taking out the symbolic and logistical heart of the Iraqi insurgency. In part, that is because the small, covert, 12-man teams of U.S. special forces have been chasing Zarqawi for years. "Every time I heard somebody complain we hadn't got Zarqawi yet, I had to grit my teeth," said a Pentagon official, "because I knew we had multiple teams out every single night for years, building intelligence...
...allows it to maintain its 164-centrifuge enrichment cascade at Natanz for research purposes, under additional supervision if necessary. That cascade is too small to create bomb material, but the U.S. and its allies believe even research-scale enrichment would provide critical know-how and could also camouflage any covert bomb program. The issue of that research facility may be one in which each side tests the other's will over the negotiating table...
...left Harvard, I very much wanted to go abroad essentially as a diplomat,” Daniloff says. “I also applied to the CIA. And guess what? I was rejected.” Though the Soviets claimed that the CIA routinely used Western journalists in covert activities, Daniloff stresses that his early desire to join the intelligence agency was unrelated to his work as a reporter. Except that it was Daniloff’s interest in government service that took him on a fateful trip down a street in Washington. He saw a sign for The Washington...
...covert means of flirtation and erotic communication, texting is rocket fuel for teen romance. Its consequences have outpaced local academic inquiry, though a recent study at the University of Oslo, in Norway, found a link between teenagers' mobile-phone activity and the timing of their first sexual experience. Says one 15-year-old boy, who identified himself as "Tank" when Time found him texting at a Sydney railway station: "If you're not sending 10 texts a day-minimum-you're not in the game...
...officials, seized the BBC China cargo ship in the Mediterranean carrying thousands of components for Libya's illicit uranium-enrichment facility. As only a handful of top U.S., British and Libyan officials knew about the secret talks, the discovery provided the public with smoking gun proof of Libya's covert nuclear program. According to Seif al Islam, MI6 officers immediately flew from London to Tripoli to assure the Libyans that the incident need not affect the secret disarmament plans. The seizure added pressure on Libya to come clean, Seif al Islam admits, but the lack of bullying...