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...main valve Bush will open now is the one labeled "war." In that arena, the public has given him a free hand to spend whatever he wants, finish off al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, hunt down its cells around the world and build up U.S. military muscle. He is already moving into the second phase of the war, tracking terrorists in countries like the Philippines, Somalia and Sudan. Sitting at Camp David two weekends ago, he told his aides he believed that roughly 100,000 al-Qaeda-linked terrorists might still be at large around the world. "We're not going...
...high-tech crime fighting, is there still a place for old-fashioned fingerprints? Israeli investigators would certainly answer yes. A new chemical for tracing fingerprints, developed jointly by U.S. and Israeli scientists, gave investigators their first break in the hunt for the Palestinian gunmen who killed a government minister in a Jerusalem hotel last October. Imdamediome, a yellow powder that is dissolved in liquid, reacts with the amino acids in sweat left by the touch of a finger but invisible to the naked eye. Investigators used the chemical to analyze a newspaper found in the hotel room reportedly occupied...
Harvey’s career-high 28 points against the Quakers, and his 15-point effort Friday night against Princeton, pushed his season scoring average to 18.3 points per game. His scoring output is second in the Ivy League behind only Brown’s Earl Hunt, and Harvey has led the Crimson in scoring in all but two games this year...
...Throughout our interview, the 17 chattering elders sat silently. As he spoke of his peoples' desire for peace, their weariness of war, their need for aid, his respect for international law and his willingness to hunt down the man he was once close to, there was not as much as a murmur. Some would nod, but in the most discrete way. Rais, it was clear, still owns his fiefdom. This man had no need to Shanghai his soldiers. He wrapped up the interview, saying he had to go, "I have a meeting with my commanders...
...warlord horse-trading rituals rather than in pitched battles. Even though they no longer control any significant territory, the Taliban's thousands of fighters may remain an asset prized by various warlords in their continuing turf battles for control over southern Afghanistan. And such calculations may be hindering the hunt for Mullah Omar...