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...market," her entrails "flung in a heap about her neck." Thus the account in London's Star newspaper of the policeman who found the body of Catherine Eddowes, a prostitute murdered in the autumn of 1888 by the serial killer the media dubbed "Jack the Ripper." But if the Ripper's notoriety was fueled by a fiercely competitive media market with newspapers trying to outdo one another in relaying gory details of the crimes, unearthing clues, floating theories and taunting the police, his killing spree remains an object of fascination more than a century later - not least because...
...Walter Scott - novels that he was convinced would make his reputation. It wasn't to be. In 1888, Holmes reappeared in A Scandal in Bohemia, a short story in Strand Magazine. An immediate hit, its hero took the foggy, crime-ridden London of gas street lights and Jack the Ripper by storm - and Conan Doyle's life would never be the same...
...several days or weeks before we know if Arrowhead Ripper lives up to its name, but it's already clear that Petreaus is pursuing a very different offensive strategy from his predecessors...
...Operation Arrowhead Ripper has been much quicker off the mark - although any offensive that requires the buildup of 10,000 soldiers can hardly be lightning-fast. But more important, it is accompanied by a second, flanking operation south of Baghdad. Over the weekend, elements of the 3rd Infanty Division began sweeping through militant-infested areas like Salman Pak and Arab Jabour. This means the militants facing the American forces in Diyala can't run south for cover. (Even farther south, British and Iraqi security forces have been conducting raids against Shi'ite militias, especially the Mahdi Army, in around...
...Arrowhead Ripper has got off to a more positive start. In early fighting, the U.S. forces reported they had killed at least 22 insurgents. And the flanking operation south of Baghdad is already in full swing. The big test ahead is whether Petraeus has plugged all the possible holes to prevent al-Qaeda fighters from slipping away again...