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...order came in at midnight. The soldiers were at their base in Beit Lid, at the edge of the West Bank in northern Israel, preparing to launch an assault against wanted Palestinian militants. As the elite unit reviewed its plans, Israeli intelligence officials phoned the commanders with an updated mission. A suspected terrorist had been tracked to a residential building in Nablus, the densely populated Palestinian city known to Israelis as the West Bank's capital of terror. In the past year Israeli forces claim to have caught or killed 120 Palestinians with plans to head from Nablus to Israel...
...Blame Us COLOMBIA Leftist rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) denied it was holding eight tourists kidnapped two weeks ago while trekking in a northern mountain range, as thousands of soldiers searched the notoriously dangerous region. FARC regularly kidnaps foreigners for ransom; it is currently holding more than 70 people, including three Americans. Two other rebel groups operate in the area...
...three men hailing a taxi late last Wednesday near Sulaimaniyah, a city in northern Iraq close to the Iranian border, didn't look like locals. They wore long, dark beards, for one thing and, though it was past midnight, didn't know where they were going. They first told the driver to take them into the city, then changed their minds and asked to be driven to a secluded suburb. Then they pulled guns on the driver and forced him out. "Do not look back," one of the strangers said, before speeding off. In any other part of the world...
...most hospitable ally for al-Qaeda operatives in Iraq remains Ansar al-Islam, the militant group of Afghan-trained fighters that was based in northern Iraq before the war; hundreds of Ansar members fled to Iran after a U.S.-led assault on their base in March. Since then, says a security chief in Kurdistan named Khasraw, the Ansar fighters have returned to Iraq and established cells in Fallujah and Baghdad, with the aim to "attack U.S. interests everywhere on orders from outside, namely al-Qaeda." U.S. agencies believe that Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, a suspected al-Qaeda operative and senior...
Along with MIT President Charles M. Vest, Summers discussed how to stimulate the state’s biotech industry and to foster a bustling university-industry collaboration along the lines of Northern California’s Silicon Valley to an audience at the Business School’s Hawes Hall...