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...Loss of support from former Sudanese allies and a long Ugandan military campaign have also pushed most LRA fighters into the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. "They don't have the capacity to recruit," says Walter Ochora, Uganda's Resident District Commissioner in Gulu, the epicenter of the conflict. "They're surrendering on a daily basis." Child abductions and other attacks are way down from their peak in 2002. Farmers in Uganda's army-defended camps tentatively return to cultivate their land by day. And the north's main town of Gulu is once again bustling with commerce...
...Hizballah in Lebanon, these communication nodes become critical," said Fred Burton, a former U.S. counterterrorism official and now vice president of Stratfor, a security consulting and forecasting company in Austin, Tex. In today's asymmetrical warfare, the Internet is vital to groups like Hizballah who use it to recruit, raise money, communicate and propagandize, Burton said, including transmissions from Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah...
...Ohio since then to make him a huge player in G.O.P. politics in the state. More recently, Ken Mehlman, the head of the Republican National Committee since 2005, has been aggressively reaching out to African Americans, making dozens of visits to historically black colleges and other venues. Mehlman helped recruit Michael Steele, the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, to run for the Senate, while Republicans in Pennsylvania essentially cleared the field of potential primary opponents for Lynn Swann, the Hall of Fame ex-Pittsburgh Steelers receiver, who is making a bid for Governor there...
...stamp out jaywalking, thousands of volunteers have signed up to monitor the city's crosswalks. SCC officials have visited schools and universities to recruit whistleblowers. Public awareness is improving dramatically. The finer legal points-such as how to handle pedestrians caught midstreet when the light changes-are now debated in Internet chatrooms...
...Crnic adds that all officers also give information sessions and travel to recruit for Harvard, and new officers must sit in on a variety of different information sessions given by existing officers to get a feel for the range of ways to give presentations to prospective students...