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...anxiety but proved blessedly uneventful, but this year the country has even more reason to be tense. Once accused of being lax toward extremists, Britain's crackdown on Britain-based radicals--plus Prime Minister Tony Blair's backing of the war in Iraq--may have made London a prime target. "Both sides have reached a point of confrontation," says Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies in London. "Terrorists might attempt something in London over Christmas for political and practical reasons." Security forces in other countries have raised their own levels...
...take out a powerful clergyman named Mullah Jalani, who was accused by the Pentagon of operating training camps for mujahedin, hiding a sizable arsenal inside his stockade and firing at U.S. troops with what officials call a "crew-served machine gun." But many question why Jalani had been targeted. Just two days before, he had been drinking tea and cracking jokes with the pro-U.S. governor of the provincial capital, Gardez. Special-forces teams that operate out of a fortress near Gardez maintained a hands-off policy toward Jalani. They say he might have set up illegal roadblocks...
...officials have apologized for the deaths of the children and promise full investigations of the circumstances. But that doesn't address the larger problem of how to gather intelligence accurate enough to target wanted terrorists and minimize innocent deaths. A senior U.S. intelligence official concedes that the problem is unsolved: Hekmatyar, bin Laden and former Taliban leader Mullah Omar are all still at large. "The results speak for themselves," the official says. And the job may only get harder. In his videotape, Hekmatyar warns his followers not to use sat phones, seeking to deny the Americans even their advantage from...
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...Rutgers players weren’t pleased either, as they complained throughout the game about the officiating, but their talk turned to a different target at the end of the game. Harvard’s players were seen off the court by trash talk from their opponents, a common feature in some leagues...