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...before they could cause any real damage, but government officials usually do not have the situation under control. Terrorists - amateurs and professionals alike - will continue to strike when we least expect it and in places we are unlikely to look. The U.S. government has made the Western world a target. Until we make friends with the enemy, the atrocities caused by the terrorists will continue. Katarzyna Radzka, GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA...
...Baghdad-connected highways that run through Madain make the area a natural transit point for the bombers that sow mayhem in the capital. A preferred insurgent tactic for evading detection is to construct car bombs and IEDs as close as possible to their target in or around Baghdad...
...suicide bombers don't have enough knowledge of how and exactly when to detonate themselves," Muzhda, a former foreign ministry official during the Taliban regime, told TIME. "Most of them are not educated. It has happened many times that these suicide bombers' explosives detonate before they reach the target. The result is the death of suicide bomber himself...
...threat of a trade war with China, by far the largest holder of U.S. debt, is serious. If China perceives itself a target, it might in turn levy a harsh tax on American imports, or outright forbid them. Such consequences, though, are not high on the minds of several Congressional committees looking for a way of easing the trade imbalance, which last year reached $233 billion...
...unanimous support from the Committee's Republicans, made it clear that protectionism is no longer a dirty word in the either major party - especially not ahead of a presidential election. The Democrats' presidential front-runners share Congress's increasing hostility to free trade, and China isn't their only target: former North Carolina Senator John Edwards and Illinois Senator Barack Obama have both called for the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. And even New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton opposes a proposed free-trade deal with South Korea, though it was her husband...