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...Russell's Cobra Company stormed the three-story building, netting 38 workers from out of town and their man--a provincial Fedayeen organizer nicknamed Sami "The Rock." Task Force 20, operating south of Tikrit, nabbed two more "high level" resistance leaders on the same night. Said Russell after the raid: "The source came through." And he could come through again--if his name doesn't end up on the wrong list. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger and Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Hassan Fattah and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad and Michael Ware/Tikrit
...recruit for the resistance movement, vowing to kill U.S. soldiers. As he and his brother Zaid drove home after collecting their family's monthly rations of flour, rice and cooking oil, they came upon a hastily established American checkpoint, part of an outer security cordon thrown up during a raid on a neighbor's house. The boys were nudging their white sedan through a crowd of onlookers when suddenly, according to witnesses, soldiers in a humvee 150 yds. away opened up, firing high-velocity rounds through the windshield of the boys...
That sentiment is spreading. After the Baghdad raid that left Zaid Khazalalrubai and four bystanders dead, tribal leaders from around the country descended on the home of Rabiah Mohammed al-Habib, a prominent tribal prince whose house was the target of the raid. (U.S. forces mistakenly thought Saddam might be there.) The visitors offered help in organizing retaliatory attacks against American troops. "My people are asking 'What action should we take?'" says al-Habib. "I'm trying to calm them down. I'm telling them that the Americans are probably desperate. But I cannot control the feeling of my people...
...influx, they wouldn't be in there." U.S. officials say they can't estimate the strength of such fighters. "We don't have the ability to monitor that," says the senior intelligence official. "We don't have regular numbers." But foreigners certainly have been among those killed in military raids. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, testifying before Congress last week, referred to a recent raid in western Iraq in which Egyptian, Sudanese and Syrian passports were found on the bodies of dead fighters...
...Senior Indonesian police sources concede to TIME that they were in possession of information about possible JI strikes in the days before the attack. One source close to the investigation says followup interrogation of four JI suspects arrested in the Semarang raid yielded specific information that the Grand Hyatt, Mulia and the Marriott were possible hotel targets. Also mentioned were the Citraland and Kelapa Gading malls in Jakarta, along with various sites used by Christian congregations. Although police insist that they were increasing security in these areas, in the case of the Marriott, the hotel's management says no warning...