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...bartender, the cab driver, the Carmen Miranda-style star of the show and her hepped-up drummer - are sharply sketched, with lots of oblique camera angles and warning shadows. The men waiting for Scott when he arrives home don?t bother to introduce themselves; are they thugs, or unknown suitors for Mrs. H.? They are detectives of the brutish sort Woolrich often painted: the menacing fatso (Thomas Gomez) and the wise-cracking sadist (Regis Toomey). Gomez: ?Your wife was strangled with one of your ties.? Toomey: ?Yeah. Knotted so tight it had to be cut loose with a knife...
...liquid, high-explosive mortar. It's impossible to know what is really in the device or if the boasts of Abu Ali and Mohammed are true. Iraqi scientists in the Military Industrialization Commission in the 1980s and early 1990s imported Soviet munitions to refill with unknown substances. Abu Ali claims that his cache came from that commission, and he is convinced the mortar contains a highly lethal gas. His group, he says, is just waiting for the right U.S. target and the right meteorological conditions to use it. When a reporter expresses skepticism, Abu Ali smiles and says, "Wait...
Some of these mujahedin are foreign. An unknown number of passionate but untrained young Muslims from all over the Middle East have been slipping into Iraq, eager for a chance to fight Americans in an Islamic country. According to U.S. intelligence officials, the men tend to come from places like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen and Syria, whipped up by enthusiastic imams back home. Once across the border, they head to mosques to link up with local resistance cells. U.S. officials believe that most of them then carry out missions under the orders of Saddam loyalists. "They use the fundamentalists...
...Asia were in a beauty contest, Kyrgyzstan would win. This becomes obvious as you rumble down 30 kilometers of tarmac into Bishkek. The snow-capped Tien Shan mountains rear up like a tsunami. But unlike Nepal or other lauded upland destinations, this country and its capital are still an unknown quantity...
...Unknown, at least, to tourists, because they're pretty familiar to the French, Dutch, American and Norwegian troops from the U.S.-led antiterror coalition camped at Manas airport. They head to Bishkek for R. and R. and the city's only department store, TsUM. In sneakers and baseball caps, they make a nice contrast to the Kyrgyz locals in their leather boots and felt hats...