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...into being an indefinite "peace that is no peace"--but we should, perhaps, be thankful for small mercies. Since Aug. 6, 1945, we have lived uneasily with the Bomb, and uneasy with it we should always be. But we have lived. --Reported by Aravind Adiga/New Delhi, Michael Brunton and Roland Lloyd Parry/London, Coco Masters/New York, Tim McGirk/Islamabad, Yuki Oda/Tokyo, Simon Robinson/Johannesburg, Mark Thompson/Washington and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow...
...Saudi Arabia, the U.S. froze bank accounts of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, which is believed to be an al-Qaeda front. A huge fear among counterterrorism officials is that the London bombings may be part of a wave of attacks. French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard says French and Spanish investigators have been asked by their British counterparts to collaborate in finding "two or even three other teams" of suicide bombers that could be part of the Pakistani-led networks responsible for the London attacks. Jacquard says European investigators, on the basis of their experience...
...West's war on terrorism has deprived al-Qaeda's "leaders"--even Osama bin Laden (especially Osama bin Laden)--of the ability to move or communicate effectively. U.S. intelligence officials say 75% of al-Qaeda's top bosses have been killed or captured. Today, says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, "the most militant groups are forming on their own initiative, on the margins of the movement ... They certainly aren't going to wait for the fatwas permitting attacks on civilians. They figure the previous ones are all they need." It's a free...
...something," and mentioning a man with a rucksack, before the witness was whisked away. Later, passengers told the press they had seen a young man on the bus playing with a bag before the bomb went off. Scotland Yard says only that the high explosives were "not homemade." Roland Jacquard, a French terrorism analyst with close links to the authorities in Paris, told TIME that his sources said early tests indicated that the explosives were of "military quality and provenance" and quite unlike the industrial material, stolen from mines, that was used in the Madrid bombings...
African-American students in schools with high interracial contact may feel greater social pressure to sacrifice their grades in order to maintain popularity than students in predominantly African-American schools, according to a paper published last month by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. and graduate student Paul Torelli...