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...become willing suicide bombers. In Washington's view, the troublemakers are foreign terrorists, either al-Qaeda operatives or returning members of the al-Qaeda--linked Iraqi group Ansar al-Islam. Many Iraqis blame the big hits on an influx of Arab Islamists bent on holy war. Observers say unknown numbers have slipped into Iraq from Iran, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The declining influence of Saddam's loyalists has apparently emboldened Iraq's Islamist groups to begin coordinating with foreign fighters eager to battle America. "They are coming into Iraq through many gates," says Ali Abdul Ameer, spokesman...
Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart) has always attended to the subtlest emotional vectors. He sees that though this film's theme may be racial prejudice, it is really the story of a man deciding, late in life, to love the unknown--what is beyond books, pride, even self. To learn that lesson is to turn a stain into a blessing. --By Richard Corliss
...DIED. CORPORAL SOK KHAK UNG, 22, U.S. Marine who received a Purple Heart in Iraq and helped in the rescue of Private Jessica Lynch in Nasiriyah in April; after being shot by an unknown assailant at a family cookout 12 days before his scheduled discharge from service; in Long Beach, California. Ung, a Cambodian immigrant, suffered shrapnel wounds in Iraq in early April. "My son is a hero for what he did in Iraq, but for him to die in America like this makes no sense," his mother told the San Francisco Chronicle. Investigators say Ung may have been shot...
Prior to this research, the gene in question was largely unknown and thought to be relevant only in the sphere of cancer research. However, Seminara said, “[the study] suggests that this gene is operating at the top rung of reproductive biology...
...When the unknown voice responded that he didn’t speak Spanish, Issacs gave...