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...TERROR Girding for the Next Attack With Osama bin Laden's taped threats still ringing in their ears, security agencies around the world wondered when and where the next strike might come. Governments from Britain to Australia had the impossible task of warning citizens about the danger while urging them to live normally. German authorities debated how to improve security at streetside Christmas markets, fearing an attack similar to one foiled in Strasbourg last year; rather than spook people with armed police in riot gear, officials in Cologne decided to train plainclothesmen to guard the city's famous holiday market...
...only emptiness. Instead of running for the gear and piling into their red fire engines, Collis and his colleagues strolled somberly to the front of the ornate 19th century red-brick building and, for the second time in a week, formed a picket line. They had begun the first strike in a feisty, even jaunty frame of mind. This time, they were more subdued. Some of the men had spent all night in front of the station TV set, following the tense pay negotiations between the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and their employers, a network of local government authorities that...
...steadfastly political stance and Vedder’s recent Mohawk, the album includes one or two jabs at the prevailing political wind. “He’s not a leader, he’s a Texas leaguer / Swinging for the fence. Got lucky with a strike / Drilling for fear. Makes the job simple / Born on third. Thinks he got a triple,” Vedder sardonically intones on “Bushleager.” But the rest of the album is some of the most personal, intimate material that Pearl Jam has ever produced, most strikingly...
...armed version of the Predator had proved itself in the war in Afghanistan last year, but the attack in Yemen marked the first known use of the drone to kill a terrorist leader outside an acknowledged field of combat--a tactic human-rights advocates liken to assassination. The strike owed its success to a tip from Yemeni authorities on the whereabouts of al-Harethi, and U.S. officials say Yemen gave its permission for the strike. But the action infuriated opponents of the government, who called it a violation of sovereignty. There may be more to come. U.S. counterterror operatives...
...five children they had abducted, tortured and sexually abused before burying their bodies on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester. Hindley had made a number of legal bids for freedom but a succession of Home Secretaries had ruled against her release. Brady has been force-fed while on hunger strike since 1999 and continues to fight for the right...