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...slipping men and munitions in and out of neighborhoods guarded by Iraqi soldiers and police. The simplest ruses work best, as the field commander of one insurgent group told me: "They never check cars with families, or children, or old people. If you have a woman passenger, you can drive past 50 checkpoints with a trunk full of C4, and you won't be stopped once...
...least one Sunni group has adapted its "martyrdom operations" to eliminate the risk to its own fighters. The al-Qaeda-linked Ayesha Brigade plants bombs in cars owned by Shi'ites and, when the unwitting owners drive them into a crowded area, detonate them by remote control. The videotape of one such operation, bearing the date stamp March 26, was showed to TIME by an insurgent who said he had participated in at least six such operations. (We were not allowed to make a copy since the video had not been edited and the faces of several of the Ayesha...
...suspected suicide car bomber killed six Spanish United Nations troops in south Lebanon Sunday, signalling what could be the launch of a campaign to drive the 13,500-strong force out of Lebanon. There was no immediate claim for the deadly bombing, the first such attack against the U.N. force, known as UNIFIL, since the end of the month-long war between Israel and Lebanon's militant Shi'ite Hizballah organization last summer. But UNIFIL has been bracing for just such an attack after months of intelligence warnings and threats from al-Qaeda leaders and Lebanon-based groups inspired...
...made the case that there are other motivators to drive people to create economic growth beyond what Coase or other economists would have said in previous generations," Palfrey said. "He has helped us explain what’s going on with the open source world and phenomena such as Wikipedia and how it is that the Internet has facilitated or amplified the extent to which people create things when they’re not just getting paid money...
...fitting the shooter's description was arrested near midnight at the intersection of JFK Street and Memorial Drive and charged with possession of a dangerous weapon and marijuana possession. The man, identified as Jonathan L. Netz, was not in possession of a gun upon arrest, the Chronicle reported...