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...Many kinds of criminals and terrorists come into Mosul from Syria. It's like the Super Bowl for them," says Salim Kako, a top official of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, which represents many Christians in Mosul. The outsiders have mixed with Mosul's homegrown fundamentalist Islamic opposition and a potent Baathist resistance fueled by the city's large number of unemployed soldiers. This stew of local and outside insurgents is stepping up attacks on American and Iraqi security forces - and anyone suspected of collaborating with them. Week after week, car bombings, improvised explosives and shootings take a steady toll...
...Thai authorities say they suspect but cannot positively prove foreign involvement in the violence in the south. Clearly, however, the insurgency is showing the fervor of jihadist groups elsewhere, most notably a readiness to die for the cause. The most potent evidence surfaced on April 28, when 108 Thai Muslims were killed by security forces in what appeared to be coordinated suicide attacks on military and police posts throughout the south (17 others were captured). Mostly young men in their 20s, the attackers almost to a man carried only knives and machetes and shouted "Allahuakbar!" as they approached their targets...
...down but is afraid of endangering what help it does get fighting terrorism. A senior U.S. official mocked the Pakistani offensive as "7,000 to 10,000 Pakistani troops courageously battling 200 al-Qaeda guys to a standstill." As for bin Laden, he is still the figurehead, the most potent symbol of Islamic terrorism. And he still tops America's most-wanted list. --By Tim McGirk/ Kabul. With reporting by Syed Talat Hussain/ Islamabad and Timothy J. Burger/ Washington
...high-school-girl hipsters, who not only pump billions into Japan's economy each year but also drive trends in hemlines, hair color and heel height from Singapore to Shanghai and beyond. In less than a decade, Maru Kyu has given birth to some of Japan's most potent trends, like 1999's Ego Girl Look (sleeveless tops, form-fitting skirts, 5in. platform sandals and cross pendants). And it has been the launching pad for some of the country's hippest labels, such as Coco Lulu, LB-03 and Moussy...
...turned up a cache of household smoke detectors, which the British suspect the group wanted to cannibalize for their minute quantities of americium-241, a man-made radioactive chemical. Officials tell TIME it's extremely unlikely that enough americium could be harvested from smoke detectors to create a device potent enough to inflict radiation sickness, let alone kill people. But others argue that spewing even a small amount of radioactive material into a crowded stadium or subway station could trigger sensitive radiation sensors, incite panic and cause long-lasting contamination...