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...which a man wearing an explosives belt leaped onto a Canadian armored vehicle in a crowded Kabul street, killing a soldier and injuring a dozen civilians. The next day, while officials were attending the soldier's funeral, the Taliban struck again. A suicide bomber crashed an explosives-packed taxi into two British army vehicles, killing one soldier, wounding three others and taking the life of an Afghan civilian. A Taliban official, Latif Hakeemi, calling TIME from an undisclosed location, vowed that a wave of suicide attacks will follow. "There is no shortage of volunteers," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Tactic, New Peril | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...walled compound with a mud hut and a metal lean-to. There they found the entrance to the hole, camouflaged with dirt and bricks, with just enough space to lie down, a fan and an air vent. It appears he had been shuttled around in an orange-and-white taxi. U.S. ground-forces commander in Iraq Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez said Saddam put up no fight, was talkative, cooperating. Says a top White House aide: "He was very forthcoming about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam's Capture | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...walled compound with a mud hut and a metal lean-to. There they found the entrance to the hole, camouflaged with dirt and bricks, with just enough space to lie down, a fan and an air vent. It appears he had been shuttled around in an orange-and-white taxi. U.S. ground-forces commander in Iraq Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez said Saddam put up no fight, was talkative, cooperating. Says a top White House aide: ?He was very forthcoming about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ?We Got Him.? | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

...Iraq, including 300 with foreign passports. But the officials aren't always able to say where the detainees are, frustrating Iraqis desperately looking for friends or family members who have disappeared. The last time Raed Karim al-Ani saw his brother Mohammed, 27, was in mid-May, when the taxi driver climbed into his battered 1983 Volkswagen and chugged out the driveway of his parents' house. In early July two men came to the house with Mohammed's ID card and car, and said they had seen U.S. soldiers pin him to the ground at a checkpoint, then haul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Hearts And Minds | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...Zhang never answered that phone again. By late September, 11 other young women had vanished in the same Shenzhen district, Buji. A month later residents noticed a strange smell along Buji's river. "We thought it was dead rats," says a man named Hu who drives an illegal motorcycle taxi. "But then police pulled out body parts." Around the same time, police circulated a list of missing women to Shenzhen's labor markets. After months without progress, they caught a break when, according to a manager at one market, an unregistered broker, Ma Yong, was found to have bribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Predatory Transients | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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