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...blasts shatter the chill midnight. The sleepy Israeli soldiers throw down their cigarettes and rush to their heavy machine guns. There's a third percussion and then a fourth from the homemade grenades hurled at "Termite" post by Palestinians at the edge of the Rafah refugee camp. 2nd Lieut. Sama'ana Owdeh stares at the infrared screen linked to Termite's rooftop surveillance camera. He directs the camera at one cinder-block house, then another. His eyes twitch with tension and concentration. "You see them?" he barks to the men at their guns. Another grenade explodes, louder and nearer...
BRIGHT LIGHTS Dreading yet another year of hauling out the Christmas lights and replacing all the dead bulbs? New Forever Bright lights by Fiber Optic Designs are made of shatter-resistant light-emitting diodes that the company claims will last up to 20 years and cut energy costs up to 85%, compared with regular incandescent Christmas bulbs. Available in red, yellow and green and selling for about $10 for a string of 100, they might rekindle your holiday spirit...
...Faithful. One Pakistani intelligence officer recently told TIME; "You can finish the Taliban simply by killing off Mullah Omar and a few others." The Taliban revolves around the mysterious and rarely seen personage of Mullah Omar, so that if he is indeed felled by a bomb, it might shatter the core of the Islamic movement...
...failed. In Rwanda, Srebrenica, East Timor, Kosovo and elsewhere, its influence was not great enough to stop genocide, ethnic cleansing and other horrors. Too much at odds to act in concert, the nations of the world were content to let the founding ideal of the U.N.--universal social justice--shatter...
...about oil and nukes suggests it's not a metaphysical struggle, which it is for him. He thinks this is a big moral battle in which he's got Allah's sanction to attack the West." In a 1996 proclamation, bin Laden asked, "O Lord, shatter their gathering, divide them among themselves, shake the earth under their feet and give us control over them...