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...mountains of south Waziristan, a rifle shot away from the Afghan border. According to a Pakistani intelligence source, they had help from several CIA operatives, who picked out the Qaeda refuge with satellite photos and electronic eavesdropping. The Uzbek fugitives had heavy machine guns and an arsenal of rocket-propelled grenades piled up on the ramparts, but they held their fire for close to an hour, until a group of Pakistani soldiers smashed the gate and walked into the courtyard. Snipers promptly raked the soldiers with machine-gun fire. About three hours later, a militant inside the fort yelled...
...ELECTED. AVUL PAKIR JAINULABDEEN ABDUL KALAM, 70, long-haired scholar and rocket scientist, dubbed India's "Missile Man" for his pivotal role in the country's successful rocket and satellite programs, and also renowned for supervising India's 1998 nuclear weapons tests, as President of India; in New Delhi. Aside from an avid interest in Indian culture-he plays the veena, a traditional Indian instrument, and is an authority on the Bhagavad Gita-he's also dedicated to making India a major military power. "Our neighbors have nuclear weapons," he has said. "Do you want us to be invaded...
That left Abdul Qadir. As the Taliban collapsed, the former warlord returned to the family power base around the eastern city of Jalalabad. He took possession of property the Taliban had used as an ammunition dump: three buildings full of rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, tank shells and "enough AK-47 cartridges to last for 10 years," as one of his fighters told a TIME correspondent late last year. The ammo was enough to make Qadir, already rich from the opium trade, a power to be reckoned with not only in Jalalabad (where two other warlords laid claims to power...
Best of all though, Bowie is rediscovering with Visconti the essentials that made his early albums so extraordinary - not the clothes, rocket ships or shifting personas but the musical craft. On Heathen you can hear again sublime, escalating arrangements, a voice in the finest fettle of his career and, on the best songs, much of the old melancholy for life in a scary universe. The pair plan to return to the studio in the next few months. For now, here's the sound. We await the vision...
...region to arrest the fighters hiding in the house of a local elder. As troops approached, the al-Qaeda loyalists opened fire. After a four-hour battle, two fighters were killed and one, an Uzbek teen, was captured; 32 others escaped. Soldiers found a cache of heavy arms including rocket-propelled grenades before the compound was razed to the ground. MEANWHILE Peace Pills In a finding reminiscent of the happy drug soma in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, U.K. researchers have discovered that maximum-security prisoners given pills containing vitamins, minerals and fatty acids committed 37% fewer disciplinary offences...