Word: ladenism
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...such films, which tend to focus on people standing around looking dour and anxious while moodily plotting to blow up the munitions train. Most significantly, perhaps, it is directed by Paul Verhoeven, who achieved both controversial success (Basic Instinct) and near-universal condemnation (Showgirls) for his hard-driving, raunch-laden American exercises in big-budget sex and violence...
...mere 22 in the 1980s and now, after two decades of capturing and breeding, still only hovers at 279 individual birds. According to a recent U.C.-Santa Cruz study, about one-third of 18 tested birds - easy victims because they are strictly scavengers and therefore chow often on lead-laden carcasses and gutpiles left over by hunters - had high levels of lead in their blood. Lead, says Andreano, is perhaps the primary barrier to the species' recovery...
...strict interpretation of Islam on a population unable to fight back. Like the Taliban in the late 1990s in Afghanistan, the jihadists are believed to be providing leaders of al-Qaeda with the protection they need to regroup and train new operatives. U.S. intelligence officials think that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, may have found refuge in these environs. And though 49,000 U.S. and NATO troops are stationed just across the border in Afghanistan, they aren't authorized to operate on the Pakistani side. Remote, tribal and deeply conservative, the border region is less...
Since Sept. 11, the strategic hinge in the U.S.'s campaign against al-Qaeda has been Pakistan, handmaiden to the Taliban movement that turned Afghanistan into a sanctuary for bin Laden and his lieutenants. While members of Pakistan's intelligence services have long been suspected of being in league with the Taliban, the Bush Administration has consistently praised Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for his cooperation in rooting out and apprehending members of bin Laden's network. But the Talibanization of the borderlands--and their role in arming and financing insurgents in Afghanistan--has renewed doubts about whether Musharraf still possesses...
...outward from their camps in Pakistan to affiliated groups and networks throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Europe." Muzafar Khan, a headman from one of the local tribes, told TIME that Uzbek commander Tahir Yuldashev, leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and a suspected confidant of bin Laden's, commands some Uzbeks, Chechens, Arabs and local fighters from his base in the borderlands. "We know they are al-Qaeda," says Khan. "They are foreigners, they have different faces, and they don't speak Pashto." He claims that "their camps are easy to find. Even a child could show...