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...terrain to outwit the Americans. As supporters stream from Baghdad 90 miles south to Kufa for Friday prayers, U.S. troops finally manage to cut the road just outside the city. In response, locals begin flagging down approaching cars, warning drivers of the checkpoints ahead and showing them how to avoid the blockade by taking a circuitous side route. Later, when U.S. troops close the road between Kufa and Najaf, prayergoers snake around back streets, along dusty trails and through a massive garbage dump. The mounds of trash give cars almost perfect cover as they slip into Kufa in time...
Berg's innocence got him into trouble. He apparently didn't know to avoid getting an Israeli stamp in his passport when he traveled to Israel en route to Baghdad. By the time he was picked up by Iraqi police at a Mosul checkpoint in March, rumors circulated among his associates that Berg, who was Jewish, was working for a telecom firm with ties to Israel, according to a security contractor in Iraq...
...computer game you couldn't avoid at the big Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles last week was The Sims 2. Its booth was front and center in the main hall, and it stood out like a Philip Roth novel atop a pile of Tom Clancy paperbacks...
GUILTY. Plea entered by JAMES J. SMITH, 60, retired FBI agent, to charges of lying about an affair with Katrina Leung, a suspected double agent; in Washington. Smith, a married counterintelligence official who focused on China, will probably avoid prison time. He has admitted to a 20-year affair with Leung, a married Chinese-American businesswoman and FBI informant. Leung faces five criminal charges that could result in significant prison time. Smith will cooperate in her prosecution...
...sewage plan for Rome in the midst of the fire. The Bush Iraq policy lay shattered in tiny pieces; the President seemed crestfallen in his public appearances. Indeed, Kerry's message discipline--broken by occasional, measured responses to reporters' questions about the war--almost seemed a clever way to avoid the issue. His audiences waited in vain for a passionate response to the Iraq debacle...