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...quietly, but insistently maintained all along - left much of the job still to be completed. The key is to round up the remaining al-Qaeda members still at large in Afghanistan, a task that will be difficult to complete until the new government of Hamid Karzai is able to extend its authority beyond the capital of Kabul. The U.S. speaks optimistically of Karzai building an Afghan national army, but power struggles between local warlords threaten to scuttle that plan and plunge the battered country into a new season of chaos...
...arrest of the three men in November raises lots of questions. Was it to pre-empt a planned terror wave in the Philippines? How far beyond the three arrested does the cell extend? What exactly was Selamah's role in the cell? Philippine officials won't specifically say. But some analysts believe Selamah acted as an al-Qaeda recruiter and facilitated the movement of operatives in and out of the Philippines via the country's maritime "back-door" border with Malaysia and Indonesia...
Provost Steven E. Hyman—whose office will oversee the committee—says the investigations will extend beyond the boundaries of distance learning...
...such a pity, if only because it stranded Kelly. He had come in at the end of the musical cycle, and helped extend it. He had democratized dance, and brought the movie musical to a new maturity. And while he was on his game - essentially from the 1944 "Cover Girl" to the 1955 "It?s Always Fair Weather" - Kelly gave the audience plenty to think about, smile about, move to and be moved...
...think we're looking for hundreds of people, but we don't really know." Certainly, in contrast to the American military, the CIA seems to be here for the duration. In Mazar they have rented a house for 6 months at $2500 a month. "They took an option to extend for a year," says the owner, "they're planning to be here for as long as it takes...