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...recent night, Ahmed met seven other men at a safe house in Fallujah a few blocks from two sites the cell had decided to target: the mayor's office and an adjacent building once belonging to the Baath Party but now used by provisional Iraqi officials and, on this night, U.S. soldiers. As Ahmed tells the story, sometime after midnight he retired to a bedroom in the safe house and prayed for a few minutes "until my heart rested." Then he rejoined the others and stole out into the night. The posse split up, says Ahmed. Five moved on foot...
...soldiers were injured, two when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded beside them on the roof of the building they were guarding and two from small-arms fire. He also confirms that the U.S. left the compound the following day. "We're a real attraction whenever we're a fixed target," says Persons. "So we're handing over security [at the compound] to the Iraqi police...
...Free Trade Area of the Americas (ftaa), the proposed 34-nation, $13 trillion free-trade zone from Alaska to Argentina. Brazil is the U.S.'s co-chair in the Nov. 20-21 talks, which are meant to hash out ground rules for the final stretch of negotiations before the target completion date of Jan. 1, 2005. Things got fierce before the meeting began. The U.S. used its carrots and sticks to successfully pressure nations like Peru and Colombia to defect from Brazil's alliance. Lula, meanwhile, accused Washington of creating a "commercial apartheid." He sent diplomats throughout Latin America...
...Turkey distanced itself from the war in Iraq but it retains closer ties with Israel than any other Muslim country in the region. "This might well have been more directed at Israel than Turkey," said a diplomat. The Jews of Turkey could be no more than a symbolic target, though. In 1900 there were 300,000; today, there are just...
...Target age group of the charity’s pro-masturbation campaign: 4,730,400 Minutes