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...about practically everything. We see it at work on Wall Street, which absorbs the collected wisdom of millions of investors and expresses it as stock prices. Prediction markets now let people bet on everything from sports scores to election results to the expected capture of al-Qaeda bigwig Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Some of the best of those online markets: the Hollywood Stock Exchange, the Iowa Electronic Markets, Yahoo's Tech Buzz Game and PublicGyan. InTrade, run by the Trade Exchange Network, an Irish firm, cleared 50,000 contracts last month (including 10% odds that al-Zarqawi will be caught...
...Americans charged with maintaining order in this roiling, ruined city in western Iraq, it's too late to make friends. One year ago, the Marines launched an assault to take back Fallujah from insurgents, including some loyal to al-Qaeda leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who had overrun the city and used it as a base for spreading mayhem throughout Iraq. A week of house-by-house fighting left hundreds of insurgents dead--and saddled U.S. forces and the Iraqi government with the task of rebuilding a battered city and persuading 210,000 uneasy locals to return home. Some military...
...DAGMA, ISMAIL SHALABI and DJAMEL MOUSTFA, for plotting to attack Jewish targets in Germany; in Dusselfdorf. Jordanians Abu Dhess, al-Dagma and Shalabi were sentenced to between six and eight years for planning attacks and forming a German cell of the radical Palestinian network al-Tawhid, headed by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, who leads radical jihadis in Iraq. Algerian Moustfa was jailed for five years for plotting and supporting the group. Much of the prosecution's case was built around the testimony of a former accomplice. All deny the charges...
...Thugs by Any Other Name Your notebook item "The New Bin Laden?" [Sept. 5] said that according to recent European intelligence reports, al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, "now rivals Osama bin Laden in influence among Middle Eastern and European jihadists." Such stories exaggerate the importance of al-Qaeda and al-Zarqawi. He is nothing but a low-level hit man. And now the media have enhanced his grandeur, providing more motivation to the harebrained Islamist yokels terrorizing the world! These people thrive on sensational news stories. Will the media please stop glorifying the horrendous activities...
...with the one about the necessity of doing "certain things" makes me wonder what Ahmadinejad truly believes. Steve Brown Johannesburg Thugs by Any Other Name Your notebook item "The New Bin Laden?" [Sept. 5] said that according to recent European intelligence reports, al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, "now rivals Osama bin Laden in influence among Middle Eastern and European jihadists." Such stories exaggerate the importance of al-Qaeda and al-Zarqawi. He is nothing but a low-level hit man. And now the media have enhanced his grandeur, providing more motivation to the harebrained Islamist...