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...very best serve as bin Laden's personal security detail. Most are veterans of battles against regimes in their homelands or the mujahedin war against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Primarily led by Egyptian and Saudi revolutionaries, Brigade 055 (the unit began as a Soviet-era Afghan-government outfit) also includes volunteers from Chechnya, Pakistan, Bosnia, China and Uzbekistan...
...students, praised by Alexander as “diehards,” attended the speech in red and black checked flannel shirts, Alexander’s signature outfit during the 1996 presidential campaign...
...third, Julie B. Goldman ’05, shows a different approach to winter wear. She is shown here wearing a tan coat, but with a swatch of leopard print on the collar to keep things interesting ($35). Julie also models an outfit for those days when you simply need to tell Mother Nature to shove it – a deep black coat ($30) offset by bright purple gloves ($2) and a snowflake patterned sweat from...
...acquire such "ground truth," the U.S. has to rely on the services of others. "What the CIA does well," says an intelligence official, "is give money to foreigners in exchange for information." So success may depend largely on Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, a tough outfit that has racked up a formidable reputation as a state within a state. With more than 40,000 officers and staff whose headquarters are in a drab military compound in Islamabad, the ISI puts tentacles deep into Afghanistan through thousands of Pashtu-speaking Pakistanis and hundreds of free-lance Afghan spies...
Because sometimes it doesn't pay off--for employee or owner. In May, Robert Barton of Burr Ridge, Ill., took a $10,000 pay cut when he switched from his old job at an energy trade publication in Washington to a position as a manager at a business-intelligence outfit in Chicago, lured by the prospect of earning hefty commissions based on the business he helped bring in. "I saw the upside of this arrangement," he recalls. Soon enough, he saw the downside. On Sept. 14, the national day of mourning for the terror attacks, he was let go during...