Word: grips
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...security officials were killed and nearly a dozen injured in separate incidents, including a bomb attack on a truck carrying Thai soldiers. The government once blamed the unrest on assorted criminal gangs. But in the face of mounting casualties, it acknowledged by midyear that the south was in the grip of an Islamic insurgency. What's only emerging now, however, is that the militants are fired by the global jihad against nonbelievers and egged on by radical clerics preaching death to infidels. "This is a domestic problem with the fashion of [an Islamic] brotherhood," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told TIME...
...plans to address the security situation by launching an offensive in December, between the U.S. election and the Iraqi one, to break the grip of insurgents on some of the population centers in the Sunni triangle. But as Fallujah and Najaf have previously shown, frontal assaults on population centers tend to produce a furious backlash in the Iraqi public, even when Iraqi troops are used on the frontlines. Keeping to the January deadline would require conducting the election campaign amid bloody battles in some Iraqi towns, whose political effect would likely to be to radicalize the views of the civilian...
...ban’s list of prohibited features is even sillier. It defines an “assault rifle” as any semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine and at least two of: “a folding or telescoping stock; a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon; a bayonet mount; a flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor; and a grenade launcher...
...Qaeda's chief operative in Iraq, have become the driving forces behind the insurgency and are expanding its zone of influence. Though the U.S. has long believed that al-Zarqawi's group is using Fallujah as a base to stage operations, the militants appear to have also consolidated their grip on parts of the capital. Last week al-Zarqawi's forces launched one of their deadliest offensives yet, setting off at least a dozen car bombs in attacks across the country. On Tuesday, Sept. 14, alone, the insurgents killed at least 59 Iraqis, including 47 in a car bombing outside...
...still camera--can also shoot 2-megapixel photographs and has a built-in 10x optical zoom lens for both video and stills. One thing that's not mini, however, is the price: $1,200 for the basic GZ-MC100, $1,300 for the GZ-MC200, which has a swiveling grip for extra comfort. --By Wilson Rothman