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...Saif Abdallah says his inventions have helped kill or maim scores, possibly hundreds, of Americans. For more than four years, he has been developing remote-control devices that Sunni insurgents use to detonate improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the roadside bombs that are the No. 1 killer of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The only time he ever felt a pang of regret was in the spring of 2006, when he heard that the Pentagon, in a bid to fight the growing IED menace, had roped in a team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abdallah, an electronics engineer...
...Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) was one of 14 institutions to receive the High-End Instrumentation (HEI) grant, with which the hospital will install a multimodality pre-clinical imaging platform. The device—which will be used by the hospital’s Longwood Small Animal Imaging Facility (SAIF)—can perform three different types of X-ray imaging of plane sections of the body. “Imaging is very important because it allows research without sacrificing the animal,” said Robert E. Lenkinski, one of SAIF’s directors. In addition...
...militias like al-Sadr's Mahdi Army have been under way since the battle of Fallujah in 2004, with both exchanging expertise and manpower. "We have nothing against Shi'ites ... our dead are buried with theirs, as theirs are buried with ours in Fallujah," says insurgent commander Abu Saif. It's a sentiment echoed by the Sadrist leaders, who bear scars from dueling with the U.S. "We have many relationships binding us together," says Abu Zainab...
...SAIF AL-ADEL Egyptian Bin Laden's security chief, believed to have taken over duties of fallen aides...
...skeptical. While al-Zarqawi advocated a war on all fronts, bin Laden was fixated on attacking the U.S. and Israel. He was unsure whether the abrasive, ambitious al-Zarqawi would make a reliable lieutenant. But al-Zarqawi would not be dissuaded. According to an account of the meeting by Saif al-Adel, a former member of bin Laden's inner circle, that appeared on jihadist websites, al-Zarqawi "doesn't retreat on anything ... He doesn't compromise...