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Then the assassins stormed the plane. Whipping out knives, they stabbed and beat Rahman to death. Neither the police nor international security forces, which patrol a different part of the airport, intervened. Later that night, when the Saudi charter jets showed up to transport the pilgrims, several of the suspected killers flew with them. Karzai has asked the Saudis to hand over General Abdullah Jan Tawhidi, a military intelligence chief, and General Kalandar Beg, a deputy defense minister, along with other suspects. The Saudis have agreed to help. In all, says a Karzai aide, more than 20 Afghan officials were...
...TIME: When will U.S. personnel begin joining their Philippine counterparts on patrol...
...OJTTF)--are thick on the ground. More than 15,000 federal, state and local personnel will watch over the Games, among them 1,900 members of Utah's National Guard--the largest single call-up in the state's history--as well as 100 U.S. Marshals and 200 Border Patrol agents from the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Surveillance aircraft will circle overhead, with F-16 fighter jets on standby at nearby Hill Air Force Base. While rifle-toting athletes ski the Soldier Hollow biathlon course, armed National Park Service rangers not far away will be patrolling Wasatch Mountain State Park...
...days, one million people from around the world will gather in Utah, temporarily ballooning the population of four counties. For every 50 or so of those visitors and athletes, there will be one member of a security team; 15,000 personnel from 60 federal agencies are expected to patrol the streets, man checkpoints and keep the peace...
...visible action will concentrate on Abu Sayyaf as American soldiers join the patrols on Basilan Island. They are on a slippery slope between training and fighting. Their very presence makes them a target for terrorists and for the local Muslim populace, which has been bitterly anti-American since colonial times. Though they are called advisers, the Americans will be going on risky missions deep into the jungle. "You're coming as close as you can to direct combat when you go out on patrol," says Michael Vickers, a former Green Beret who is an analyst at Washington's Center...