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...areas where the insurgents are expected to be most effective in keeping would-be voters from going to the polls will be their Sunni strongholds in the provinces named above, including the capital, Baghdad. But they have also shown considerable ability to strike far from their home turf, through terror strikes in Najaf, Karbala, Hilla and other Shiite population centers as far south as Basra. In those areas, however, their threat will be countered by the strong sense among the long-marginalized Shiites of the election as an opportunity to claim the power of the majority, and the edict...
...only from satellite television. "The [Czech] league has become the equivalent of the NHL," boasts Karel Knap, a sports journalist with the leading Czech daily Mlada Fronta Dnes. That might be a stretch, but it's undeniable that some of the game's European greats are back on home turf again. Jaromir Jagr, the Czech star forward for the New York Rangers and one of the NHL's best-paid players with a salary of $11 million...
...Indeed, this is the first time in Asia that a telephone company has used its broadband network to successfully invade turf traditionally occupied by cable- and satellite-TV providers. Although phone companies around the world have flirted since the mid-'90s with delivering TV signals to people's homes, only a handful of systems have gone into commercial operation because of the high costs of upgrading networks to carry data-intensive video. In the past few years, however, pay TV has become more alluring. According to Media Partners Asia, the industry in Asia is expected to grow by more than...
...office of Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection--to build the system. But IAIP was almost immediately mugged by the CIA, which backed a new Terrorist Threat Integration Center to do much the same thing. The Pentagon and the FBI ignored both efforts, in the classic passive-aggressive manner of turf-obsessed bureaucrats...
What's missing? The biggest missing piece is reform of congressional oversight, which is a mess. Any initiative a DNI undertakes can be undone by six committees or subcommittees. Don't expect lawmakers to give up their turf. --By Douglas Waller