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...Islamabad say hundreds of al-Qaeda operatives are still hiding out in Pakistan. Last week, according to tribal elders, some 40 U.S. commandos set up base in the Pakistani town of Miramshah, following reports that bin Laden might be holed up nearby in either north Waziristan or the Tirah valley. Officially, Pakistan's government, sensitive to popular anti-American sentiment, denies that U.S. special forces crossed into its tribal borderlands. Whether or not U.S. troops are on the ground, Washington must depend, at least in part, on Pakistani intelligence to flush out remaining fugitives. The working deal is this...
Tommy Barrett is a dreamy-eyed fifth-grader who lives with his parents, twin brothers, two cats and a turtle in San Jose, Calif., the heart of Silicon Valley. He's an honor-roll student who likes math and science and video games. He's also a world-class expert on Animorph and Transformer toys. "They're like cars and trains and animals that transform into robots or humans--I love them!" he shouts exuberantly...
...Barretts' home state of California, for instance, the number of autistic children seeking social services has more than quadrupled in the past 15 years, from fewer than 4,000 in 1987 to nearly 18,000 today. So common are cases of Asperger's in Silicon Valley, in fact, that Wired magazine coined a cyber-age term for the disorder, referring to its striking combination of intellectual ability and social cluelessness as the "geek syndrome." Wired went on to make a provocative if anecdotal case that autism and Asperger's were rising in Silicon Valley at a particularly alarming rate...
...Georgian troops should have finished U.S. training. If there is an attack, Arshba adds, "I do not exclude the participation of U.S. advisers." Washington says its advisers will prepare Georgian counter-terrorist troops to root out a group of al-Qaeda operatives supposedly sheltering in the remote Pankisi valley, but many diplomats in Georgia wonder if the terrorists actually exist. The U.S. insists that its advisers will not be involved in any military actions. Arshba, a veteran of Afghanistan who trained at a military academy alongside some of the Georgian commanders he is preparing to fight, shrugged off the diplomatic...
...option. On April 14, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak wrote an op-ed in the New York Times advocating that a fence be built to include 80 percent of the Israeli population living in the West Bank and that a security buffer zone be established in the Jordan Valley. The Israeli cabinet has already given instructions for construction on a fence to start. Although such a barrier is anathema to some Israelis because it excludes many Jewish communities which have grown up in the West Bank, it will protect Israel from a continued terrorist assault. Israel must also protect...