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...tape to a suspect's hands, place it under the scope and hit it with a stream of electrons. The elements in gunpowder give off distinct X-ray signatures, and if they are there, the electron beam will spot them. The drawback? "You don't get to see the terror on people's faces when you pour hot paraffin on their hands," says Fischer. "I think it encouraged some people to confess...
...many as 75 - but Tibon's task is more difficult and nuanced: he must track Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank without starving or killing innocents or getting his own men killed. In a place where two out of three live below the poverty line, he has to fight terror without fomenting it. It's a task that much of the world believes is impossible, but Tibon thinks it can be done. To do it, he has to instill routines into young conscripts who have known only the disorder of war. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited Washington last week...
...just getting started. Says Al Stanton, an Edinburgh-based oil analyst with Deutsche Bank: "The opportunities for expansion are tremendous." Driving the oil rush is Washington's search for reliable oil suppliers outside the Middle East - a search made more urgent in the wake of this month's terror bombing of an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. European companies such as TotalFinaElf and Royal Dutch Shell have long been players in the region but leading the new charge are U.S. giants ExxonMobil and Chevron and independents such as New York-based Amerada Hess. American firms have been particularly...
...TERROR Targeting Asia's Weakness Islamic terrorists routinely say they hate the West - so why are they taking it out on the East? Bombings in Manila, Zamboanga and Karachi, in the wake of a particularly horrific blast in Bali, provided the answer: Asia offers the softest targets, often because its governments and police forces lack either the will or the way to crack down on extremist groups. In Bali last week, tourists and locals alike were outraged by revelations the Indonesian government ignored warnings from the U.S. that groups linked to al-Qaeda were active in the country. (The British...
...bombing "is a heavy price to pay to come to grips with reality, but it seems to be having that effect," Wolfowitz told Time on Friday. "What I read in the newspapers suggests the parliament is now working on an anti-terror...