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...this town, humanity is represented by Claudia (Jennifer Beals), Carnegie's mistress and hostage, and her daughter Solara (Mila Kunis); they will be less Eli's allies than his baggage as he fights off Carnegie's gunmen. Not that Eli needs much help. A half-dozen men in the saloon, a dozen or more in a Main Street shoot-out, the whole Carnegie regiment ready to reduce to rubble the rural house Eli has holed up in with a grizzled couple (Brit theatrical giants Michael Gambon and Frances de la Tour) and Solara - none of these armies can bring...
...heart of Kabul was under siege for several hours Monday as Taliban insurgents launched their biggest assault on the capital in months, with gunmen opening fire outside the presidential palace and at least two suicide bombs being detonated. The attack seemed intended to send a message to Afghan President Hamid Karzai that his government's plan to try to bring Taliban fighters over to its side with an incentive package of jobs and education programs - in addition to the surge of 30,000 additional U.S. soldiers being deployed to the country - will be met with fierce resistance by the militant...
...Brahma Chellaney, a security analyst based in New Delhi, said the ferocity of the attack - with militants using machine guns, grenades, suicide bombs and remote-controlled mines - was consistent with a "pattern of international terrorism" that has emerged in the region in recent years. In November 2008, gunmen believed to be part of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba unleashed a similar commando-style raid on Mumbai over a three-day period, killing about 170 people. Analysts say the timing of Monday's attack was also key, as it came at a particularly vulnerable moment for Karzai. In an attempt...
...athwart all their major thoroughfares, where a handful of policemen peek into vehicles and perfunctorily inspect trunks before waving them through. At best, these checkpoints are a visible deterrent designed to reassure the public. But for months now, they have for the most part failed to keep out gunmen, suicide bombers and vehicles laden with explosives. (See pictures of the aftermath of an October 2009 bombing...
...Wickrematunge, who was also a freelance reporter for TIME, was shot on Jan. 8, 2009, while driving to work. His car was followed by two motorcycles, which blocked his path as the gunmen shot him through the driver-side window, when he was just five minutes away from his office. He was rushed to the hospital but died after surgery. Wickrematunge was a staunch critic of the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration, and his murder came in the middle of the government's final offensive to crush the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The government did not brook any criticism...