Word: ruralization
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...Laden's continued ability to elude capture has bedeviled American efforts on the war against terrorism - not because anyone supposes that from some rural fastness he is dictating strategies and tactics on the latest terrorist outrages, but because he remains a potent symbol of defiance. The capture of Saddam helps, but so long as bin Laden remains at large, all the power and high-tech wizardry of the American armed forces are still losing the battle that is most important in the Islamic world - the struggle to convince ordinary Muslims that those who espouse terror and oppose liberal, modern social...
...owned by Qais al-Nameq, who was a personal attendant of Saddam who returned a few years ago. His two sons were arrested along with Saddam. These residents say al-Nameq was arrested and the second location the Americans searched was his farm. At first, the searches of a rural farmhouse, however, turned up little that was suspicious. But after all these years of deception, all these months of hunting, given Saddam?s reputation for tunnels and safe rooms and secrets, the soldiers knew to scrape the paint off the walls in the event he was hiding behind them...
...vengeance being exacted only now? "After the regime fell, people concentrated on surviving," says Naji Chachan, an attendant at a Baghdad morgue. "They needed time to hunt these people down." Aws notes that when the U.S. conquered Iraq, many Baathists fled the cities for rural areas or foreign countries. Now many are returning to Baghdad, he says, in some cases having run out of money. In the city, it is easier to find them...
...Weiding carries a heavy family responsibility. His father owns a $1 billion auto-parts supplier that controls the biggest privately run firm on China's stock exchange. But while Lu Guanqiu wanted his son to succeed him, the younger Lu rejected filial obligation and spent his teens careering around rural China in jeeps and on motorcycles. When he rear-ended a dump truck, Dad finally packed him off to Singapore to study and, says Lu, "to save me from becoming a failure...
While the U.S. and its allies have dithered for months over whether to deploy more troops outside Kabul, Afghanistan's countless warlords have established a reign of terror in the nation's small towns and rural areas. At the same time, a recrudescent Taliban, aided by its al-Qaeda allies, has stepped up attacks on U.S. troops and reconstruction efforts in southern and eastern regions of the country, assassinating 13 aid workers since May. The latest, a French U.N. employee, was shot in the face and killed early last week by suspected Taliban gunmen in the southern town of Ghazni...