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Hambali could prove to be an important asset. CIA interrogators are attempting to pump him for information about future attacks and the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden's dwindling inner circle. According to a U.S. intelligence official, an al-Qaeda detainee told the U.S. that Hambali had been trying to recruit pilots for a 9/11-like plot that might have involved suicide hijackings, but it is not known whether the captive was telling the truth and, if he was, when or where the plot would have taken place. And while it is unlikely that Hambali knows the precise coordinates...
...onetime TV actor who is also running for Governor, may be the very definition of a long-shot candidate. But even he has a website with a platform. That's more than you can say for Schwarzenegger. Last week he was still mostly saying things like, "I will pump up Sacramento!" Friends describe him as a moderate Republican, fiscally conservative but libertarian on most social issues. They also say he's a true conservative, a man who keeps a bust of Ronald Reagan in his office. What that means exactly is still something of a mystery...
...opposite may be true. "The sea breeze may exacerbate the rainfall," says research meteorologist Marshall Shepherd of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The warm air and sea air collide, he explains, and "move straight up like the front ends of two cars that hit head on, providing a pump of moist air that helps thunderstorms develop...
...broadband by 2015, he estimates that "we will probably come close to a doubling of the overall standard of living throughout the world in a generation." The globe's second-most-powerful economy in 2020? China. Prediction No. 2: The U.S. doctrine of preemptive strikes and increasing unilateralism will pump up the ill feeling between itself and so-called orderly nations like France and Germany. Over the next five years, Schwartz says, American military forces will pull out of almost all their overseas bases, as massive standing deployments give way to a high-tech global police corps calling on small...
...remain under guard in a Phnom Penh hotel. According to officials, the group allegedly set up an illegal telephone network and had made nearly $30,000 worth of essentially free international calls over the Internet since June 27. Police believe the group was contacting gullible investors overseas to pump bogus savings schemes and worthless stocks. Such scams have long plagued the country's Southeast Asian neighbors, but Cambodia may have an added attraction: its loosely regulated NGOs. The detained foreigners are suspected of using as cover the Cambodian Rehabilitation and Development Program (CRDP). According to the government, CRDP was registered...