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...begun routinely. Salahdin (Captain Salah) Mahmoud, 47, an interpreter for TIME, and bureau assistant Talal Abu Karam, 50, were driving to an assignment when they found themselves sandwiched between two U.S. military patrols at a busy intersection in the western district of al-Qadisiyah. Both men knew immediately that their risky commute had suddenly become a lot riskier. Military patrols are frequently attacked by insurgent groups, and passing civilian vehicles often end up as collateral damage. As Abu Karam stopped to let the second patrol pass, Salah said, "This is not good...
...into the powder blue 1981 Toyota Corona, hurling it across the three-lane road. An improvised explosive device, intended for the patrols, had gone off just 10 feet from the car. The two men were slammed against the windshield, shattering it, and were showered by a hail of shrapnel. Salah's left arm and hand were torn to shreds below the elbow, and blood spurted from two gaping wounds in his left thigh. Both men were lacerated by shrapnel and burned. A shard of glass cut a deep gash in Abu Karam's neck. The blast also damaged a second...
Some 200 yards behind them, taxi driver Emad Hasan watched as Salah and Abu Karam dragged themselves out of the burning wreckage and collapsed on the road, their clothes in tatters and both bleeding profusely from multiple wounds. As they lay moaning, a crowd of commuters gathered--but kept their distance. "Nobody dared to go near them for 10 minutes," says Hasan, "because we were all afraid there might be a second blast...
...common al-Qaeda tactic, Israeli intelligence sources point out. And five days before the attacks, al-Jazeera aired a new tape of al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Egyptian native Ayman al-Zawahiri, calling for Muslims to support the Palestinian uprising by attacking Israel and the U.S. Mohammed Salah, an Egyptian expert on Islamic groups, notes that the Sinai operation targeted a number of key interests of al-Qaeda's sworn enemies: the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, Egypt's promotion of a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement and the security of Israel and Egypt, Washington's two key allies...
...Salah, a trained epidemiologist, says the value of the program is greater than the number of prevented cases. Health workers have created a game plan that can be applied to other scourges. "With this campaign, we have gathered a huge body of practical, field-tested methods on how to eradicate a disease," he says. "Once we develop vaccines for TB, SARS, HIV or malaria, we will be able to use these methods to add even more to the health of humanity...