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Former officials of Saddam's regime tend to have the technical know-how and the cash to mount operations. The organizers are generally midlevel officials from Saddam's extensive security apparatus. "They're colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors who are really the hard-core loyalists," U.S. Major General Raymond Ordierno, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, tells TIME. While the deposed dictator is the ideological inspiration for these loyalists, chances seem slim that he is directing attacks himself. "The communication involved," says a Pentagon official in Iraq, "would expose him too much to capture." Instead, U.S. officials believe, strategic direction...
...despite the enormity of the challenge, the odds are by no means insurmountable. There is much that can and must be done. Effective prevention models exist, but they must be expanded; potent treatments have been developed, but they must be made universally accessible. We have the know-how, and we have the resources. We are losing the fight against global AIDS for want of political will...
...French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, has become the mentor for "local actors plotting and launching attacks along the guidelines and long-term instructions of al-Qaeda leaders." According to the CIA, 70,000 to 120,000 recruits went through bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan, graduating with lethal know-how just waiting to show itself. Al-Qaeda can easily find "lots of idiots ready to blow themselves and others up in the name of some higher cause," says a senior French antiterrorism official. French intelligence authorities believe those second-generation radicals are forming scores of separate underground groups only...
...William, 43, is chief operating officer. Aerin's sister Jane, 30, is developing Beauty Bank, a new brand that will be sold exclusively at Kohl's department stores. Most industry observers expect William to take over the corporate helm, but Aerin, with her impeccable style, social presence and marketing know-how, is already the family's most public persona, as her grandmother once was. "Aerin's a terrific ambassador who focuses on brand image," says Wendy Nicholson, a financial analyst for Smith Barney...
...addition, there are signs of foreign involvement in the unrest. U.S. officials doubt that Iraqis by themselves had the know-how to pull off assaults like the car bombings. Moreover, a Pentagon intelligence officer in Iraq told TIME, "It is totally against the psychology of the Iraqi people" to become willing suicide bombers. In Washington's view, the troublemakers are foreign terrorists, either al-Qaeda operatives or returning members of the al-Qaeda--linked Iraqi group Ansar al-Islam. Many Iraqis blame the big hits on an influx of Arab Islamists bent on holy war. Observers say unknown numbers have...