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...carnage, Iraqi leaders of all stripes were quick to urge their constituents not to turn on ethnic or religious rivals. But U.S. Army General John Abizaid, the Pentagon commander responsible for Iraq, warned that "civil war is possible" if the violence escalates and conceded that Iraq's fledgling homegrown security forces remain "weak spots." Still, he said, there "is a much greater chance" that Iraq will emerge as "a stable and modern state...
...These homegrown carmakers will have to compete with multinationals like General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Volkswagen and Citroen, all of which have invested heavily in Chinese joint ventures and are muscling for market share. GM, which has made Buicks in China since 1999, will soon launch top-of-the-line Cadillacs and plans to increase total production 50% in the next two years. In a first for the country, Beijing recently announced it will allow GM to import cars made overseas without going through a Chinese partner. Ford plans to increase production sevenfold, to 150,000 cars a year. Volkswagen, maker...
After anthrax-tainted letters Began showing up in the wake of 9/11, authorities quickly suggested that this was probably a case of homegrown terrorism rather than Round 2 of al-Qaeda's assault on the U.S. The likely perpetrator, many still believe, was a malevolent nerd with chemistry-lab expertise and a grudge against the government. But when traces of the biological toxin ricin showed up in Senator Bill Frist's mail room last week, the FBI and other agencies declared there was no evidence pointing to either a foreign culprit or a mad scientist. One possibility under examination...
...discriminatory, harsh and, paradoxically, ineffective at targeting homegrown terrorists, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said he was thinking of changing it - by extending the same stern measures to British citizens. Which approach makes Europe safer? The American camp at Guantánamo Bay may be the most notorious attempt to bypass legal protections for the accused in the name of fighting terrorism, but many European countries are marching smartly in that direction. "It's just a matter of degree," says Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. While visiting India last week, Blunkett proposed a tough antiterror package...
...raising the war's U.S. death toll to 500; a suicide bombing on Sunday targeted coalition headquarters in Baghdad, killing two Americans and at least 18 Iraqis. U.S. officials in Iraq fear that assaults are increasingly being directed by jihadists who are leading cells that employ ex-Iraqi soldiers, homegrown Muslim militants and foreign volunteers. An Iraqi with close ties to the resistance says that a group of former Iraqi military officers held two meetings with religious militants last fall that established an alliance aimed at coordinating anti-American attacks. A senior U.S. military official in Baghdad says religiously inspired...