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...highway has become less deadly--perhaps the only place in Baghdad that can make such a claim. The once daily attacks along the road have given way to occasional strikes, like the twin suicide bombings in May that killed 14 Iraqis near Checkpoint 1, where arriving travelers meet transport waiting to take them into the city. U.S. officials claim the decline in attacks as a victory for military strategy, attributing it to the greatly increased visibility of Iraqi soldiers along the road. My contacts in the insurgency offer an alternative, equally plausible explanation: there are fewer U.S. patrols and convoys...
...Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI), which had connections to Al-Qaeda and aimed to remake the lawless Horn of Africa country as a hardline Islamic state. At that stage, though, the group had only a few hundred fighters, and Ethiopia, which claimed AIAI operatives had tried to kill Ethiopia?s transport minister and had attacked hotels in Addis Ababa, crushed the Islamic group within months. But the Islamists regrouped and adopted a new strategy. Much as Hamas in Gaza or Hizballah in Lebanon, the Islamists spent years winning support among the Somali public by running medical clinics, schools and courts...
...they took too much, and all of it was in the wrong currency. They didn't have a money-laundering strategy good enough for that much cash, in pounds sterling. First, the crooks needed to reduce the bulk of their haul, because less is more when it comes to transport and security. If the entire $97 million had been, conveniently, in Britain's largest ?50 ($92) notes, the robbers would have had to cope with 1.06 million pieces of paper, weighing over 500 kg and stacking over 40 storeys high. As it turns out, the cache included tens and twenties...
...terror attacks are meant, above all else, to cripple the lives and spirits of common people, then Bombay provided a fitting response—trains on the bomb-affected Western line ran as usual the next day, with many commuters returning to work on their preferred mode of transport. Here in Calcutta, I have heard from many of my friends in Bombay about the “indomitable spirit” of their city, a phrase that has been used extensively by the television news channels reporting from Bombay. There were reports of people serving tea, bread, and daal...
...pine coffins. Some of the bagged bodies are pathetically small - hospital officials say that over half of them are children. Other coffins are filled with several shopping bags, all that remains of some of the victims. The bodies had been stored in a makeshift morgue - a refrigerated meat transport truck brought from Tripoli in northern Lebanon at the outset of the war in anticipation of many fatalities. But the corpses are rotting and the local population began to complain. More ominously, hospital officials say they may need the space for what might come next...