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...forces killed up to 2,500 suspected insurgents in August, but the will of the rebels shows few signs of cracking. Attacks on U.S. troops increasingly come in the form of direct fire from small arms and suicide bombs, the tactics of a more sophisticated and in-your-face foe...
...Musharraf's seat is still a hot one. By cracking down on his main foe, al-Qaeda, Musharraf is also creating new enemies at home. After months of prodding by the U.S., Musharraf has clamped down on some of the country's 13,000 registered madrasahs, or seminaries, which are al-Qaeda's richest recruiting ground in Pakistan. A prominent imam at Islamabad's Lal Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz, disappeared on Aug. 13 after police captured bin Laden's former chauffeur, who had borrowed the religious leader's car, according to police. The Arab driver was allegedly involved...
...Front runner Pavena is an old foe: in 2003, a charitable foundation she runs that helps abused children filed a complaint that Chuwit employed underage girls. Chuwit said he never did so deliberately, and a court acquitted him in June after employees testified they had used forged IDs to get jobs in his massage parlors. If he wins the governorship, Chuwit promises to devote all his time to the task of cleaning up Bangkok?from cracking down on corruption to improving garbage collection?even forgoing the luxury of vacations abroad. He doesn't have much choice: a court is still...
...long run." According to Petr Khomyakov, a leading proponent of Russian nationalism, similar ideas are spreading among educated young people like Alex. "I've been watching these kids for years," Khomyakov says. "They meet each other in university classes and scientific seminars. They have this ingrained genetic friend-foe identification system." Khomyakov warns that both the government and established neo-Nazi leaders are losing control of this kind of grass-roots group. "Nobody knows what's brewing down there," he says. Sociologist Starovoitova agrees that neo-Nazi beliefs are slowly creeping into the mainstream. A few years ago, she says...
...know what kids go through when they are carrying an M-16 in a dangerous place and they can’t tell friend from foe,” Kerry said. “I know what they go through when they’re out on patrol at night and they don’t know what’s coming around the next bend. I know what it’s like to write letters home telling your family that everything’s all right when you’re not sure that’s true...