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...Police sources in Britain declined to comment on the claims, as did Yusof Abdul Rahaman, the director of the special branch of Malaysia's police force. Sidney Jones, who heads the Southeast Asia office of the think tank International Crisis Group, says that it's critical to understand how "like-minded jihadis from other parts of the world" are forging ties with each other. Jones stresses the role played in such contact by Pakistan's Islamic schools, or madrasahs. Khan is said to have visited a madrasah in Pakistan less than a year...
...radio reports, even though officials called for an evacuation, they never anticipated this many people actually would leave. Katrina apparently spooked everyone. Fuel trucks that were supposed to be at rest stops along evacuation routes are stuck helplessly in traffic. "They're saying if you have an 1/8 tank of gas or less to get off the roads and let other people escape," mom says. Despite 100-degree heat, she turned off the car's air conditioner a couple hours ago. Instead, she's holding an umbrella out the window to block...
...money for private school is roughly 30,000, with a "handful" involving federal funds. The Spellings plan assumes roughly 60,000 federally funded private-school placements. Finn, an Assistant Education Secretary under Ronald Reagan, approves of it as "compassionate and constitutional." Andrew Rotherham, a co-director of a think tank called the Education Sector and a former Clinton education adviser, says the proposal's eventual legitimacy may depend on details Spellings has not yet made available. "As a temporary initiative to help families in exceptional circumstances, it's reasonable," he says. "But if they use this disaster as a beachhead...
...real problem isn't crude oil prices. Crude oil is useless unless it is refined into the products we really need - gasoline, heating oil and jet fuel. Refining is a simple but essential step in getting from oil in the ground to gas in your car's fuel tank. Oil's various refined products, such as gasoline, kerosene and diesel, have different boiling points. The lighter the chemical composition of the desired product, the lower the temperature needed to separate it from the crude. It's not cheap; refining costs account for nearly 19% of the price of gas sold...
...Within 30 minutes, they come under sniper fire. A three-man sniper team from the élite Iraqi Counterterrorism Task Force (akin to the U.S. Delta Force), with a pair of U.S. special-forces liaisons, takes positions in front of the platoon, scanning for muzzle flashes, as an Abrams tank 50 yards up Corvette fires its 120-mm cannon at an insurgent mortar team, followed by a burst of .50-cal. machine-gun fire. A helicopter swoops ahead, firing a Hellfire missile at the insurgent position to help clear Blue Platoon's path. The helicopters kill at least a dozen...