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...document is believed to have been written by Issa al-Hindi, an al-Qaeda operative captured in Britain last year. It recommends concealing bombs in limos because the vehicles "blend in" and "can transport larger payloads than sedans ... and do not require special driving skills." The limos can "access underground parking structures that do not accommodate trucks" and "have tinted windows that can hide an improvised explosive device from outside." The document calls for the deployment of three limos, each carrying 12 or more compressed-gas cylinders to create a "full fuel-air explosion by venting flammable gas into...
This is not the way Vladimir Putin wanted 2005 to begin. Since Jan. 10, a sea of angry pensioners has filled the streets of cities across the country to protest cuts in their social benefits: housing and prescription-drug subsidies, and free public transport. Military officers, who have also lost benefits, are angry too. Faced with the most widespread demonstrations of his presidency, Putin tried to blame his cabinet for botching the reforms, then ordered pensions raised. But pensioners are threatening bigger protests in February when a second wave of reductions kicks in. And this week, Putin is expecting...
...standstill as Putin was paying a visit to his native city. Some waved signs demanding that he resign. What provoked all this violence and incivility? A new law that strips about 40 million Russian citizens of some social benefits, including the right of pensioners to ride public transport for free. (As an added affront, fares jumped by 30%.) The legislation, which replaces benefits with individual cash subsidies, is part of the Kremlin's effort to balance its books. But the government allocated just $6 billion to cover $18 billion in scrapped benefits, and starting in February, some medical benefits...
...dehydration, diarrhea, lacerations and people missing limbs," says Kenny Rowe, a petty officer on a Seahawk. "We've got people with gangrene and other infections that could be fatal that haven't been treated for a week." Back at the airport, a few C-2 Greyhound transport planes load up with rice and carry it in. "Right now rice is gold to these people," says Rowe...
...after 34 months in a Rawalpindi jail for drug smuggling; to Los Angeles. Aude was arrested at Islamabad airport in February 2002 when security agents found 3.6 kg of opium in the lining of his suitcase. His seven-year sentence was commuted when Razmik Minasian, who hired Aude to transport leather goods from Pakistan to the U.S., was arrested in Los Angeles on a drug-smuggling charge and admitted that he had put the drugs in the suitcase lining. On his return, Aude said, "I'm lucky to be here on American soil...