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...That's the kind of slit-throat warfare the Pentagon tried to prepare the public for early in the conflict. But so far there hasn't been much of it. Some planned commando infiltrations have been sabotaged by sandstorms, sleet and Taliban resistance. Bad weather caused the crash last Friday of an MH-53 Pave Low helicopter in northern Afghanistan, injuring four crewmen. U.S. F-14s blew up the wreckage of the downed helicopter to prevent its secret equipment from falling into hostile hands. Pentagon officials dismissed Taliban claims that it had shot down the helicopter and killed...
...that a number of them are "Takfiris," followers of an extremist Islamic ideology called Takfir wal Hijra (Anathema and Exile). That's bad news: by blending into host communities, Takfiris attempt to avoid suspicion. A French official says they come across as "regular, fun-loving guys-but they'd slit your throat or bomb your building in a second...
...Whitechapel district of London’s East End. It was the first instance of a serial killer in the modern Western world, and absolutely unique because of the case’s circumstances. Each woman was “done” in the same manner (slit across the throat) and each was mutilated (organs removed) in such a way that demonstrated an intimate knowledge of human physiology, suggesting that Jack was a very well educated man—likely, one of the British upper class. The Ripper worked methodically and ruthlessly, taunting authorities with letters and sending half...
...Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived in the Lianjiao plant. Their bodies were discovered later that morning, along with those of two Chinese security guards and a 17-year-old female employee. According to news reports, all had their throats slit. A watchman at a nearby plant recalls that the usually attentive guard dogs on the premises had not made a sound...
EXTRADITION ORDERED. For IRA EINHORN, 61, Philadelphia fugitive who fled to France in 1981 and was convicted in absentia 12 years later of killing his girlfriend; in Champagne-Mouton, France. When told of the order, Einhorn slit his own throat, "but at the last minute, he changed his mind about dying," one of his lawyers said, and survived...