Word: swats
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Mesquite is a quiet street in the small, high-desert town of Playas, N.M., just north of the Mexican border. Suddenly it is alive with action. A heavily armed SWAT team races toward two adobe houses where terrorists are holed up, according to reports from a confidential informant. The troopers smash down the door of one, blow open two doors of the other and disappear inside...
...suicide-bomb factory. The kitchen is littered with chemicals, including a jar of yellow liquid simulating human urine, which can be distilled into an ingredient for an explosive called urea nitrate (used in the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993). Haskins explains the assault to a visiting SWAT team from the Washington state police: "If you think explosives are inside, you don't blow the door. You batter it down. You don't want to set anything...
...Terrorism, indeed, is proving to be an effective means to advance the religious cause. In Swat, a picturesque valley that has been besieged by Fazlullah's militant forces, the government has proposed the implementation of Shari'a. Bhutto's husband and de facto successor, Asif Ali Zardari, says he will eschew the military option in favor of dialogue with militants in the restive tribal areas along the border. That approach could work, but it requires the Pakistani people to take a firm position on who takes control of their religion. The extremists have already shown that they are willing...
...entry pass into the lane with six seconds remaining, but it was intercepted by the Bulldogs’ Travis Pinick.On the fast break, Pinick found Yale senior guard Eric Flato open behind the three-point line, and Flato sunk a trey as the buzzer sounded over the attempted swat of Harvard junior Cem Dinc.The Crimson would stay close the rest of the night, but would never recover from the big run.After trailing by as much as 21 early in the second half, Harvard would get within 10 at 61-51 on a quick release three-pointer by sophomore Dan McGeary...
Even though the military, eager for progress before Pakistan's Feb. 18 general election, has reported success against Islamists in the nearby Swat Valley, the militants' campaign against entertainment in Peshawar has only escalated. During the 1990s, when Taliban rule in Afghanistan forced scores of refugee artists into Pakistan, Peshawar became the capital of pop culture for the Pashtun, an ethnic-minority group numbering some 39 million along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Local producers built a formidable movie industry that served up a formulaic diet of violence and sexism (but no sex) to Pashtun populations on both sides...