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...Even more threatening than bombs or guns are those who might wield them. Malaysian security officials in Kuala Lumpur say five armed Thai Muslim militants were arrested at the city's central train station on March 9. Perhaps in an indication of the sensitivity of the arrests, Malaysian police spokesmen denied they had taken place. But TIME confirmed the incident with two Malaysian intelligence officials familiar with the case. Details of the arrest and what, if anything, the group had planned remained sketchy. But the intelligence sources say the Thais' presence in Kuala Lumpur, which has so far been spared...
...short-term buyers might do the trick. In the meantime, the bullish mood in Shanghai and other booming Chinese cities is "just phenomenal," says Anton Eilers, regional residential director at property firm Colliers International. "Putting a couple of small rocks on the track isn't going to stop the train...
...would be difficult to dispute the professionalism and impressive compactness of the touring production; the set design’s transformation of a wardrobe space into a train, then the room of a decaying prince, and then a dining table was absolutely fascinating to watch...
...house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle into the dark. The return fire raked his chest; his life was saved by his bulletproof vest. "For 48 hours after that, I was a train wreck, dumbfounded," he says, weeping softly in his four-bed hospital room. In many rooms along these long hospital corridors, soldiers tell similar tales of grief and pain. Across the hall, Sergeant Chris Chilles, 28, a California National Guardsman, says he was standing in the gun turret of his Humvee...
...That said, the U.S. hasn't yet ceded command and control to the Iraqis. "We train the rank-and-file but we're the leadership," says the Pioneer commander. However well-trained, the Iraqi special forces comprise only a tiny fraction of the 57,000-member Iraqi army, which has been plagued by low morale, inconsistent training and infiltration by insurgents...