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...first of Rose’s two touchdown tosses, a 15-yard strike to Morris early in the second quarter, broke a 7-7 tie and gave Morris his eighth touchdown grab...
...missiles, the shoulder-launched anti-aircraft weapons used to wipe out Soviet planes and helicopters in Afghanistan in the 1980s. A U.S. indictment of the three suspects claims that the arms were destined for al-Qaeda, and U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has enthusiastically hailed the bust as a "strike against the terrorism/drug-trafficking nexus...
...sign of deep economic trouble, and markets fell. Then the European Central Bank kept its rate at 3.25%, prompting concerns that it wasn't doing enough for the economy - and markets fell more. Right To Work Harder Unionists from South Korea's largest industries launched a strike to keep the government from cutting the workweek from 44 hours to 40. The strikers won, and parliament shelved the bill, but with goals like that, Korea's unions probably won't be forming a pact with European counterparts soon...
...better organized and fully operative structures." There have been key arrests - six Tunisians suspected of plotting a bomb attack in northern Europe were picked up in Italy, France and Malta last month; in Eindhoven last week a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin was apprehended for allegedly plotting a suicide strike - but nothing crippling to the terrorist enterprise as a whole. The evidence was compel- ling enough for the former director of the German intelligence service, Hans-Georg Wieck, to conclude that Hanning's warning was justified. "You don't make a statement like that just to make people vigilant, otherwise...
...Some Americans may question the evidentiary standards used to determine just who is eligible for summary execution-by-drone, but such qualms are likely to be muted by claims that the Yemen strike eliminated an active al-Qaeda kingpin. The danger arises when such operations go awry, particularly on the basis of bad intelligence - as has happened more than once in air strikes over Afghanistan. Positively identifying suspects usually requires human intelligence input from the ground, and therein lies considerable room for both mistakes and manipulation. Such mistakes cost the U.S. dearly, and officials are likely to demand extra precautions...