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...iron security gate. Such security measures are common in South Africa's wealthier suburbs, but neighbors describe Thatcher, 51, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as a security-obsessed recluse. "He's a mysterious character," says one. For such a private man, last Wednesday's morning raid by South Africa's Scorpion police unit must have been particularly galling. The Scorpions, whose motto is "Justice in Action," arrived at 7 a.m., catching Thatcher in his pajamas. For the next seven hours they searched his house, including, reportedly, a bedroom-sized safe with reinforced steel walls, examining documents...
Most chilling, the al-Qaeda operatives managed to keep their attack plans a secret from the U.S. government--until July 24 of this year, when a raid begun on the house of an al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan uncovered three laptop computers and 51 data-rich discs. Stored on the computers were 500 photographs of potential targets inside the U.S., minutely detailed analyses of the vulnerabilities to a terrorist attack of several of them and communications among some of the most wanted terrorists in the world. In their volume and specificity, the discs amounted to what a senior U.S. intelligence...
...When I saw Saddam, I thought, 'This person is an accused.' If I had started to think, 'These are men who killed many thousands of Iraqis,' I couldn't do my job." SADDAM'S JUDGE, RAID JUH AL-SAADI, who has decided to abandon his anonymity, when asked if he was nervous about confronting the Iraqi dictator...
...Whatever the truth, South African authorities worry that the country's passports - which require fewer visas than many African and Asian passports - are becoming a must-have accessory for terrorists; Home Affairs officials fear corrupt employees are selling passports. South African passports were among illegal documents found in a raid on a suspected terrorist safe house in London four months ago. "Other countries are already growing wary of our passports," says Anneli Both, a terrorism expert with the Institute for Security Studies in Cape Town. "Now they will think twice before letting us in anywhere...
...meantime, 1st Cavalry commanders are trying unconventional techniques. When a raid turned up a huge cache of contraband cigarettes, Formica recognized an opportunity for outreach. He had the packs distributed with special wraps printed with hotline numbers, an exhortation to report suspicious characters and the promise of a reward. A smoker called in the first bit of intelligence last week, Formica says. "Here's something you don't hear every day," he says, "but that pack of cigarettes may have saved some lives." --With reporting by Christopher Allbritton/Baghdad