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...range of sound and style which he has fostered in himself. After developing a love for the country-blues of Mississippi John Hurt, Kottke lost much of the hearing in his left ear as a result of a mishap with a firecracker. During a later time in the Naval Reserve, his right ear suffered permanent damage during firing practice. But, despite whatever keenness he lacks physically, the tone he produces with his echo-in-a-hollow-barrel of a voice and warm 12-string and six-string guitar playing soothes and sounds past any apparent need for rehabilitation...
...prepared with the help of Allah to inject further doses." Hanning's analysts figured he was referring to the April 11 synagogue bombing on the Tunisian island of Djerba that killed 21, including 11 German tourists; and the May 8 ambush in Karachi that killed 11 French naval engineers. The attack on the French tanker Limburg off Yemen just days before the broadcast only heightened suspicions. Al-Zawahiri seemed to be describing a campaign to punish Europe - specifically, France and Germany - for supporting the U.S. in its war against al-Qaeda. Several websites with links to al-Qaeda have...
...among a group of eleven representatives who toured Guantanamo Bay naval base in March to look over the facilities in which 300 suspected Taliban and al Qaeda members who were captured in Afghanistan were being held...
...forces based in the East African nation of Djibouti, across the Red Sea from Yemen, and a Marine Corps amphibious assault ship, the Belleau Wood, has been in the area since August. Sources tell TIME the U.S. is looking to use the port of Assab in Eritrea as a naval base to keep an eye on traffic between Yemen, Sudan and Somalia. At home, the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center (CTC) now has a staff of 1,100 analysts and covert operatives, almost triple the number it had a year ago. Technologists are working on new gadgets to track terrorists...
...evidence is all around us. China's surprising cooperation with the U.S. after Sept. 11. Beijing's muted response despite the Bush Administration's de facto upgrading of relations with Taiwan. An equally taciturn response to Japan dispatching naval forces to the Arabian Gulf, an expansion of Tokyo's reach that normally would spark loud complaints from Beijing about Japan's resurgent militarism. And in the U.N. Security Council, a China that says not no but nothing, signaling its quiet acquiescence even as France and Russia actively slow a U.S.-sponsored resolution on Iraq...