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...went sour. Or, possibly, because the talks were going too well. Divisions within the insurgency have begun to appear, with gun battles between Iraqi resistance cells and the foreign fighters led by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Could al-Zarqawi's followers have abducted al-Sharif in an effort to thwart his negotiations with a rival insurgent group? If Egypt or other Arab intermediaries were able to persuade some insurgents to join the political process, al-Zarqawi would be more isolated in Iraq...
...give cash-strapped Caribbean countries cheaper access to Venezuelan oil. Although Chávez was democratically elected, he flirts with autocracy. And he indulges in Castroesque paranoia about the U.S.: This summer Venezuelan civilians are training alongside the army in antiaircraft and antitank warfare so they will be able to thwart the next Bay of Pigs...
Beneath the hype and ambition of the prosecutors in the trials of the Mafia families lies the real issue of human frailty. The decimation of these organizations will not thwart the demand for their services. In time, others, perhaps more ruthless and less insular, will fill the vacuum. Paul Riley New York City Parisian Terror...
...thwart the software pirates, publishers in the late 1970s began opting for copy protection--modifying their disks to make them more difficult to duplicate. Thus began a long-running game of technological cat and mouse, in which the software manufacturers devised ever more complex barriers to copying and hackers found even more ingenious ways to overcome them...
Before 9/11, the agency required plants to be able to thwart an attack by little more than an armed gang--three outsiders equipped with handheld automatic weapons and aided by a confederate working inside the plant. After 9/11, when al-Qaeda showed the ability to produce 19 operatives for a suicide mission on a single day, some security specialists anticipated a significant hike in the DBT. But the number of attackers in the revised DBT is less than double the old figure and a fraction of the size of the 9/11 group. (The NRC regards the exact number...