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...Until now, conventional wisdom held that Japan's foreign population was too small, tightly regulated and closely watched to pose any terror threat. Officials frequently bragged about the sophistication of their high-tech border controls, claiming they would be sure to snare any known unsavory characters at the port of entry. Those boasts withered last week, however, in the face of revelations that Dumont slipped undetected in and out of the country four times on a fake French passport, while also being on an international wanted list. The possibility of such infiltration has added credence to the single explicit threat...
...group creates some smooth grooves, and the guitar playing is predictably spectacular, but in the process of stretching the songs Clapton strips them of their intensity. Billy Preston's bouncy keyboards make 32-20 Blues sound like a Country Bear Jamboree performance of Chopin's Funeral March, while the snare hits and harmonica clichés on Traveling Riverside Blues sound like Johnson channeled through a Michelob ad. Clapton's vocals don't help matters. You can tell he's ecstatic to be covering his idol, but his exuberance increases the disconnection between the music and the material. Johnson...
...TIME.com: What's the latest you're hearing about the possibility that Pakistani forces may be about to snare a top al-Qaeda leader...
...from locals about possible al-Qaeda hideouts. A U.S. officer in Afghanistan says American forces are employing techniques similar to those used to capture Saddam, combing bin Laden's network of contacts and interrogating anyone with information about the people who might be giving him shelter. The drive to snare bin Laden has been bolstered by improved cooperation with Pakistan, which has dispatched a 70,000-man force to the tribal region...
Laying a Mousetrap Can a cable guy from Philly snare Disney--and boot the chief Mouseketeer...