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...Start with the think tank Strategic Forecasting (www.stratfor.com), based in Austin, Texas. It publishes a daily "situation report" that chronicles the previous day's events in a no-nonsense way. I always manage to find things on that list that I have missed. Like most private-analysis sites, this one charges a fee to get at the juicy stuff...
...Back on the border in Termez, ill-kept former Soviet tank firing ranges litter the desert. Broken barbed wire marks the outskirts of a separate military installation. Few people are on the streets. The banging of ripped corrugated iron against concrete supports is the only sound competing with the ever-wailing wind. In the bar room on the ground floor of the Hotel Surkhon, the town's lone oasis, a few young men are drinking beer and vodka chasers around the pool table. The melody, Things Can Only Get Better, booms from the audio system. It's a tenuous hope...
...more prominent dissidents were detained for allegedly engaging in illegal activities. SOUTH KOREA Immigrants South Korean patrol boats set out from the southern port of Yosu to search for the bodies of 25 Chinese illegal immigrants, dumped overboard from a Korean fishing boat after they suffocated in a storage tank. The dead were among a group of 60 trying to reach Korea to find work. South Korean police arrested the captain and crew of the Taechangho VII. BELIZE Storm Damage The year?s most violent Atlantic storm, with winds of up to 225 km/h, killed 21 American divers. Although major...
...aims of this campaign have been no big secret--decapitate the Taliban, eliminate al-Qaeda's terror apparatus and seize Osama bin Laden. Administration insiders call the strategy "Taliban plinking" (echoing the "tank plinking" of the Gulf War): special forces plan to pick off one individual at a time, starting with Mullah Omar and working down the command chain of Taliban leaders protecting bin Laden. The first wave of lightning special-ops strikes was, as much as anything else, a psychological weapon designed to boost American spirits and faith in the government, silence suspicions that the public might go wobbly...
...Jamil Hamad: From my bedroom window I can see a tank. And the shooting is as loud as if I'm sitting in an orchestra playing the 9th Symphony of Beethoven...