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...that happens, some think the military should consider using small squads of around 10 men to "bait them out," as one soldier suggested to another in a creek bed during the recent operation, adding, "Heck, I'll be bait." That, of course, might result in U.S. deaths, which could prove a propaganda victory for al-Qaeda. "You want to chase down every one of them, but do you want todo that on their terms or yours?" asks paratroops intelligence officer Captain Patrick Willis. Lately, it's not clear which side is dictating the terms, or even winning the battle...
Calling in the military to operate fancy surveillance technology may prove frustrating. Satellites are particularly unhelpful, experts say. They cannot monitor the entire D.C. region at once in any detail. The RC-7 surveillance plane brings fewer handicaps. It can loiter over D.C., aim its camera at a shooting scene after a 911 call and pick out a white van. But it would miss vehicles obscured by trees or buildings...
...video for her latest single, Dirty, Christina Aguilera is clearly trying to offend someone. Wearing chaps, leather underwear and a smirk, she writhes in pools of muddy water and hangs out with other similarly clad colleagues in a boxing ring. Despite all this effort, the video has not proved raunchy enough to earn the ultimate publicity coup: getting banned by MTV. Rather, it has offended the government of Thailand, a country not known to be coy about sexual matters. Officials are not objecting to the dance moves or what looks to be an orgy but to a pair of posters...
...That was just the opening act of a contentious political drama still playing out on the floor of the Diet, one that may prove the most important showdown of Koizumi's career. The fate of Takenaka and his banking plans has become a critical test of the underwhelming Koizumi era. If Koizumi enacts the package without sacrificing all of its major planks, the path toward sweeping economic reform may have finally begun. If, however, the formidable phalanx of Koizumi's opponents blocks the proposals?or waters them down to the point of irrelevance?then the Prime Minister's credibility...
Until, that is, last week. But Saturday might prove to be the day Rose regained...