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...Best Vehicle: Attack-mode KITT. Competition was stiff in this category, what with Nite Owl's ship, Bond's Aston Martin and some sort of GI Joe digging device on the floor. But this Mustang on steroids designed for NBC's new Knight Rider boasts Lamborghini doors, a top speed of 377 m.p.h. and, most importantly, turbo-boost. All that vehicular decadence helps us forget about $4/gal...
...people to the cause or attract attention" at a time when the eyes of the world are focused on China, he says, adding, "I don't think they seriously are claiming responsibility." Says terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna: "The threat is to change the mood rather than to mount an attack in the Olympic venue. However, attacks elsewhere, small to medium, are likely in the lead-up and during the event." Becquelin, who wrote his Ph.D. dissertation about the situation in Xinjiang, said the group had previously released several videos but that "they've never presented any evidence that they...
Despite widespread criticism of Beijing for its failure to produce any proof that such plots exist and the often shifting and contradictory accounts given by security forces of alleged attempted attacks, there is little dispute that some sort of attack during the Games is possible. In 2002, under pressure to obtain China's support for an amendment on Iraq at the U.N., the U.S. State Department designated the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as a terrorist group. Concrete information on such groups is hard to come by. The consensus is that a small group of separatists - probably fewer than...
...report published by the center in June, Gunaratna wrote, "There are multiple threat groups operating in China. But the group with proven capability to attack in China is the ETIM. Working with al-Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban, ETIM has been training members specifically to mount operations in China." He warns that although the group is small, the threat it poses to the Olympics is real because of the training and assistance it has received from al-Qaeda-linked groups. "To prevent attacks, it is essential for Beijing to develop a deeper understanding of the structures of each one of these...
...Revenge motivated the leaders of the U.S.-based MS, whose initials stand for "Salvatrucha Gang," to order Cortes killed. They blamed him for his failure, while leading the gang inside the penitentiary, to defend his members against an attack by rivals from the 18th Street gang. It had been the worst prison massacre in Honduran history: While the MS slept on the floor of their cramped dormitory, members of the "18" had sneaked in with homemade knives and steel pipes and killed 11 of Cortes's homeboys. The attackers then gutted their victims and triumphantly strung their intestines along...