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Threats in the city are far from fully quelled. Every day, joint Iraqi and U.S. Army patrols gather intelligence and raid suspected insurgents' homes. Recent tips suggest that Shi'a extremists are planning another armed attack on the city or high-profile assassinations of city leaders...
...receptionist sits next to a case displaying bongs and other paraphernalia. Inside, patients examine samples in glass cases. Some day, Duncan says, this will be as normal as visiting Walgreens. For now, he's less focused on his inventory than on his group's efforts to supply activists with "raid kits" - protest signs, bullhorns, and sunscreen - so they can show up on a moment's notice to confront DEA agents. Says Duncan: "I predict we're going to have a very long summer...
...days earlier, in a camp for people displaced by the conflict about 20 miles away, Miriyam Joga, 41, could barely contain his rage. A relatively successful farmer, Joga had owned a few dozen goats and 27 oxen in the southern Chhattisgarh village of Punpalli until a Naxalite raid three years ago. "They said if I leave my village then they will cut me like this," he said, tilting his head back and drawing his finger across his throat. "But I was feeling that they might murder me anyway so I left. They took my animals and now I have nothing...
...down for the count yet; but their membership, according to U.S. intelligence, has been halved to about 10,000 in recent years, and FARC's command structure is dwindling. Weeks before Marulanda died on March 26, his No. 2, Raul Reyes, was killed in a controversial Colombian army raid on a FARC camp over the border in Ecuador; and this month another top comandante, Eldaneyis Mosquera, alias Katrina, surrendered to Colombian authorities and called on her comrades to do the same. Over the weekend, Uribe claimed that other FARC honchos have offered to lay down their arms and release captives...
...Bordeaux raid, police also seized several computers and flash disks, which will likely require deciphering since ETA usually encrypts its internal communications. "That might be the most significant thing of all," says Dominguez. "In 1987, police found a house that functioned as the political apparatus' archive, and it revealed all the links between the leadership and every organization - the political parties, the youth groups, the unions - it had contact with. The same thing happened with documentation police captured in 1993 - that information laid the groundwork for the outlawing of Batasuna...