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...arrival of demonstrators holding banners and shouting slogans usually marks the start of the working day for UN arms inspectors in Iraq. Then come the journalists, grabbing pictures of the UN team's white Toyota Land Cruisers leaving their compound, before hopping into their own cars to give chase. The convoy quickly grows as Iraqi intelligence officials, also driving white Land Cruisers, join the procession. When the team reaches its destination, it is usually greeted with suspicion and anger. And they usually return to base empty-handed...
...employee of a San Diego software company, Tapestry Solutions, who had been on the U.S. base before his murder. According to police at the crime scene the gunman or gunmen had crouched behind a hedge along the highway's edge. The victims, who were driving a gold-colored Toyota Landcruiser SUV, stopped at traffic lights signaling a left hand turn towards Kuwait city...
...attacker or attackers opened fire, blowing out the Toyota's side windows, the car lurched forward, finally coming to a rest on a median strip 40 yards south across the intersection. Glass fragments scattered around the car where it stopped show that the killer or killers continued firing as the Americans tried to flee. The right hand side of the car was hit with at least 24 bullets and the side windows on both sides of the car were shattered. Blood pooled beside the car's front doors...
...thought of persuading even more buyers to customize by offering easy, accessible options online. In a study published this month, Forrester Research analyst Baba Sheddy found that 66% of prospective buyers customized vehicles while researching price online. In a bid to turn speculative customizers into real ones, Toyota's Scion, Honda's Element and Saturn's Ion will let customers order personalized cars on their websites with touches like aluminum pedals and gearshifts, and springs that adjust the car's height. Because young buyers "want something that says, 'I'm unique,'" says Toyota's Jim Farley, the youth-targeted Scion...
After more than a year of trying to track down Jemaah Islamiah (JI), Southeast Asian intelligence agencies are now also focusing on another group: Laskar Jundullah. Following December's bombings at a Toyota dealer and a McDonald's restaurant in Makassar, the South Sulawesi-based Islamic group has found itself the target of police scrutiny, in part because of the group's own geneaology. One of its alleged co-founders, Agus Dwikarna, is a convicted terrorist serving a 17-year jail sentence in the Philippines, while the other is Kuwaiti Omar al-Faruq, the top al-Qaeda operative in Southeast...