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This summer, however, hardly a week has gone by in which the kingdom's newspapers haven't carried sensational headlines about the latest police shoot-out with an al-Qaeda cell or the discovery of an illicit stash of arms and explosives. The streets are blocked by police checkpoints. In an unprecedented step, the Interior Ministry has published the names and photos of al-Qaeda suspects at large, appealing to the public to turn them in. Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto ruler, has declared his own war on terrorism. The kingdom's highest religious authority has issued a declaration...
...principals, Troy has been arduous but rewarding. "It's like going to the acting doctor," Bana told TIME while on set in Malta, "and hearing him say, 'This is exactly what you need.' I've never had so much fun on a shoot before...
...reason private jets no longer skim the Himalayas into Kathmandu is not hard to fathom. There is little glamour in the daily bloody shoot-outs between rebels and government forces that dominate the news from Nepal today. Squads of armed police and Royal Nepalese Army soldiers in armored cars and mine-clearing vehicles now guard every street corner in the capital. Gatherings of more than five people?even, Rana assumes, his famous parties?have been outlawed, and the city grinds to a halt every few days as armed police cordon off downtown blocks and break up protests against the crackdown...
...Control Your report on Iraqi resistance to the occupying forces described the shooting of a boy, 13, by U.S. soldiers who fired on a car from a distance of 140 meters [Aug. 11]. How well trained are the American soldiers in Iraq? Surely this death could only be the result of a lack of discipline in dealing with crowds. There is no simple answer to the question of how this happened, but a policy of "shoot first and ask questions later" will never solve the problems in Iraq. One cannot take action against war criminals by committing war crimes. However...
...Bush's misstatement that Iraq attempted to purchase uranium was yet another example of a "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality. Ken Ray Orange...