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...growing more organized. Leaders of small cells that once acted independently now share intelligence and tactics and divide up targets. On another night in November, Abu Ali held a meeting of eight cell commanders and 17 lieutenants in a kerosene-lit house a good distance from Baghdad. The younger men cradled AK-47s; the senior men, each representing a different resistance cell with at least two dozen foot soldiers apiece, carried sidearms. Abu Ali gestured toward each man, who in turn rattled off his area of operation. The place names sketched a map of trouble spots for the U.S.: Baghdad...
...Tarrant County a unique hotbed of precocious delinquency? Not at all, says Ronald Stephens, director of the National School Safety Center in Westlake Village, Calif. Across the country, he says, "violence is getting younger and younger." In the past five years, Stephens says, an increasing number of school districts in the U.S. have instituted special elementary schools for disruptive youngsters. "Initially, it was high schools that created these schools, then middle schools. Now it's elementary. Who would have thought years ago that this would be happening?" he asks...
...tells her. "And in life, sometimes a man must suffer." FROM MOGADISHU TO KHARTOUM With a schedule of northbound buses in hand, Abdi Salan announces that he will leave the following morning. He has finally gained his parents' permission, and he sits his four younger brothers and sisters down for a chat, but decides not to tell them that he's fleeing war. "There's work for me in Europe," he says instead. He packs a small knapsack with a single change of clothes, a black satchel for his money and a few photos. As he boards...
...local man, who speaks Arabic in a faint voice. (Abdi Salan's native tongue is Somali, but he understands enough Arabic to get by.) The man is tall, lean and dark, wearing a flowing white Arab robe and headdress. He is flanked by a pair of shorter, younger subordinates in Western clothes. The smugglers agree to help Abdi Salan cross the Sahara to Libya, where he hopes to board a boat to Europe. Up until this point, his journey has been routine. But Abdi Salan knows that from here on in, each step must be taken undercover...
...Gamblers, Royal Tramp), doesn't seem to mind Tsang taking control?in fact, it's part of the reason Wong cast him. "Eric's very creative and can contribute a lot to dialogue, costumes, the acting, and the comic setups," he says as Tsang barks more instructions to the younger actors and repositions them in front of the camera. Eric Tsang, Hong Kong's Everyman, might already be on his way to becoming the industry's boss...