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Meanwhile in Lebanon ... Lizard Alert Beirut's residents are in terror of a giant lizard that has been roaming the streets, killing cats, dogs and even a horse. Witnesses say the reptile is a Komodo dragon, thought to be a freed pet. Authorities appealed to nature and science TV channels for help in snaring the beast, which has so far eluded the best efforts of the civil defense to catch...
...stumbled away from the scene, clutching at his thigh, he remembers thinking: "How can this happen here?" Within an hour, as the news of the latest terror attack spread through the Iraqi capital, all of Baghdad was asking the same question: how did a car bomb get into in the heart of the city's security establishment, the high-security compound of the Baghdad police headquarters...
...looked on. The bombers "were our boys," asserts a senior officer with India's intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). He characterizes them as a "little caucus, scarred by Gujarat." An American source agrees that this is a domestic matter, not part of the broader war on terror: "We don't feel this is our issue...
...India (SIMI) met TIME in Bombay two months ago and spoke plainly of his group's intentions to target the city. "Umar"?a name given to him by TIME?stressed that although his men might accept technical or financial help from fellow militants from Pakistan or elsewhere, the terror campaign in Bombay in recent months was a domestic response by Indian Muslims to years of discrimination at the hands of the Hindu majority and the BJP under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. "We started peacefully, and we were attacked," said Umar. "So now we attack others. If we sit idle...
...groups?acting without Islamabad's support?might have been involved. And Umar wasn't coy about his willingness to use outside help, saying that "Whatever support we need, we ask and they give us." A Dubai-based Islamic militant leader even suggests that SIMI is part of a loose terror alliance that includes the Pakistani Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e-Mohammmad, as well as Palestinian and other Middle Eastern groups. He says operatives have named themselves Ikhwan (brothers) and are sworn to avenge atrocities or injustices against Muslims in India, Israel and even Europe...