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...disappearance has clearly rattled Pakistan's nervous security establishment, underscoring the continuing threat to Musharraf, who has survived at least three attempts on his life. A Pakistani military court last month sentenced a soldier to death for his involvement in the Dec. 14 plot, and Musharraf's military-controlled regime is expected to investigate whether insiders were involved in Ahmad's escape. --By Adam Zagorin, Tim McGirk and Ghulam Hasnain
...before. I thought it was the sound of bombs." The water rose behind him as high as the coconut trees on the shoreline, and he was thrown off his boat. "It felt like doomsday," says Bustami, who, after clinging to a coconut tree, was eventually picked up by a soldier three hours later, almost 2 miles away from where he had lost his boat...
...this is my 15 minutes of fame, I hope it saves a life," says Thomas "Jerry" Wilson, the National Guard specialist who unnerved Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a public forum by asking why soldiers have to scrounge for scrap metal to arm their vehicles before heading into Iraq. Wilson, 31, who joined the National Guard a few days after Sept. 11, has kept a low profile since the Dec. 8 town-hall meeting in Kuwait, even as his question--and a reporter's later account of his role in preparing it--became a hot topic. But in an interview...
...like that answer." But as a George W. Bush supporter, he adds, "I hope I didn't do any damage to Secretary Rumsfeld." After the meeting, Wilson told Rumsfeld he did not intend to put him "on the spot" or show disrespect, and the two shook hands. While most soldiers were "overwhelmingly positive" afterward, one officer suggested Wilson should have asked the question in a more "proper forum." Says Wilson: "My response was, 'What would the proper forum be?' If it costs me my career to save another soldier, I'll give it." --By Anne Berryman
...have already been clear-cut and defoliated. The contrast could not be more horrifying. Its end may not come as quickly?or be as inevitable?as that of the aborigines who once roamed it, but the Tarkine is evidently fighting for its future. Every paying ecotourist is a foot soldier in the cause...