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...Spanish police reconnected with him through dumb luck. A bomb that didn't explode on March 11 was connected to a cell phone whose SIM card was tracked back to Zougam's shop. Spanish press reports say he purchased a whole box of them recently, along with 14 cell phones. In a thorough search of his shop, police reportedly found a piece of plastic broken from the casing of the cell phone found with the unexploded bomb...
...weapons caches were turned in to ODA 936 in Nangalam, more than anywhere else in Afghanistan. Once the troops' presence is established in the Afghan hinterlands, U.S. officers believe, the villagers will start to deny the terrorists sanctuary. Although one Green Beret says, "It's going to take dumb luck to stumble across Osama," the special forces are confident that someone will eventually give him up. "It may be the opium farmer whose daughter we airlifted to a hospital who thinks he owes us," says an officer who serves as the unit's intelligence chief, "and who comes in with...
...That was a horrendous call,” Weiss said about the holding. “When you got a bottom guy going flat to his stomach it’s obviously a stall. It’s a dumb call...
...Buddy Guy and B.B. King has been reciprocated over the years, with both respectfully calling on him as a producer and collaborator. The spandexed sybarites in Aerosmith have never been much for tradition, which makes their blues obsession more subversive and dynamic; on the surface they churn out big dumb power ballads, but Joe Perry's wailing guitar lines and Steven Tyler's lyrics ("I was cryin' when I met you/ Now I'm tryin' to forget you") would have Leadbelly nodding in recognition. Clapton and Aerosmith both know their blues, but playing blues classics convincingly is another matter. Clapton...
...consultant and Zuckerberg’s roommate, Christopher R. Hughes ’06, might have an answer to Norvell’s question. Hughes, who is largely responsible for figuring out the social aspect of the website (as opposed to Zuckerberg, a self-described “dumb programmer” who is mainly in charge of the technical functions), sees thefacebook as a way to tighten pre-formed bonds. “It’s a tool to help people improve social relations by networking with people you only know tangentially,” Hughes says...