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...near vehicles when they were hit. But locals in the fighting zones say much of the bombed-out machinery that they came across had few or no corpses inside. Iraqi soldiers learned not to sleep near their vehicles and to construe any sign of a U.S. air raid--the appearance overhead of a drone, the sound of a plane or the sudden explosion of a nearby tank--as a prompt to take cover. In Mahmudiyah, for instance, the commander of a 150-man Republican Guard unit ordered his troops to leave their tanks in the market and prepare to confront...
...tribal hinterlands near the Afghanistan border to the port city of Karachi. Then they pounced, capturing a Yemeni al-Qaeda leader named Waleed Muhammad bin Attash along with five Pakistanis who had stashed 330 pounds of explosives and weapons under the produce. Another big fish netted in the raid was Ali Abd al-Aziz, a bin Laden bagman who, U.S. officials tell TIME, funneled nearly $120,000 to the Sept. 11 hijackers. Aziz could help expose details of the secret financial networks used by al-Qaeda to fund its past and future operations...
...Last week's raid of the terrorists' lair yielded an additional 770 pounds of explosives?in all, enough to level a city block. It was a timely haul, to say the least. U.S. officials believe Attash and his cohorts had imminent plans to load the explosives into a small plane and crash it into the American consulate in Karachi. That prompted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to issue an advisory to pilots and aircraft rental companies urging them to secure their planes. "Just because these six have been arrested, it doesn't mean there's no longer a concern...
Still, while coalition forces took pains to safeguard Iraq's oil ministry in Baghdad, they left the nation's cultural heritage wide open. Raid Abdul Ridhar Muhammad, an Iraqi archaeologist, told the New York Times that at the height of the ransacking, he persuaded a U.S. Marine tank crew to come to the museum, where they fired over looters' heads, dispersing several thousand of them...
CAPTURED. ABU ABBAS, 54, leader of a Palestinian terrorist group that hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985, shooting American Leon Klinghoffer to death and pushing him, in his wheelchair, into the Mediterranean Sea; in a raid by U.S. Special Forces; in Baghdad, where he had been living freely. Abbas is in the custody of the U.S. If extradited to Italy, where he was convicted, he would face a life sentence; if tried in the U.S., he could face death...