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Undergrads at Ohio State University have been so gung ho about an international-studies course called Terror and Terrorism that the school added another frighteningly current class last spring: the Development and Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction. For their term papers, students must assess the potential damage of an atomic, biological or chemical attack--and offer solutions. "I had students e-mailing airport and nuclear-power-plant officials," says Professor Jeff Lewis. "I had to restrain their enthusiasm...
...estimates running to $10 billion. Huge swathes of farmland have been scoured by the salt water and may take years to recover. Thailand's tourism economy - a primary foreign exchange earner - has been devastated: While a natural disaster wouldn't discourage tourists from returning in the way that a terror strike might, its tourism infrastructure has been badly damaged and, more importantly, so have many of its pristine beaches and coral reefs...
...Blair is grounding his re-election campaign this year on the security agenda Clarke now runs, including controversial compulsory ID cards. But the day after Blunkett quit, the country's highest court sank one of his toughest law-and-order legacies. It voted 8-1 that foreign terror suspects could no longer be detained indefinitely without trial, because the emergency the government declared to square this with European human rights law was invalid, and indefinite detention too extreme. Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights organization Liberty, called it "the most important constitutional decision in recent history." Lacking Blunkett...
...Mullah Mohammed Omar, and MULLAH QAYOOM ANGAR, another Taliban commander; by Afghan security forces acting on a tip from a Taliban insider; outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. Khan's capture could help U.S. and Afghan forces track down Omar, one of the most wanted fugitives in the U.S.-led war on terror. Afghan officials say the arrests, along with the capture of 17 other suspected militants last week, could also signal a weakening of the Taliban's three-year insurgency...
...capital that U.S. forces face an ongoing battle to create an environment safe enough to open polling stations. Indeed, Deputy Chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East Lt. Gen. Lance Smith said Wednesday that the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has claimed responsibility for numerous terror attacks, had relocated to Baghdad following the U.S. assault on Fallujah. "He can operate pretty safely, we think," Smith added. "In some areas of Baghdad, there are those that would hide him and those that would passively allow him to operate. You can find him someplace else tomorrow." An environment that permissive...