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...fear among Afghans, with the ultimate goal of reimposing the Taliban's primeval control over parts of the country--and it's working. The campaign took a lethal turn three weeks ago, when Taliban fighters blew up a busload of Afghan laborers heading to work at a U.S. military base near Kandahar, killing eight. Atrocities like that are commonplace in America's other battleground in the war against terrorism, Iraq, but the bombing represented the first large-scale attack on Afghan civilians working with coalition forces since the U.S. toppled the Taliban in 2001. And sometimes the threat of violence...
...board is Dmitri Medvedev, the First Deputy Prime Minister, who is widely seen as a possible Putin heir. After its brush with Ukraine, Gazprom is now pushing hard to acquire gas distribution and marketing companies in other countries; last week it acquired the industrial and commercial client base of Britain's privately-owned Pennine Natural Gas. The next sector ripe for state consolidation may be the pipeline business. According to official documents seen by Time, there are moves afoot within the Kremlin to create a huge oil and gas pipe-line monopoly based on an existing pipeline operator, Transneft...
...says the officer. "But it was very specific." It wasn't enough. At 5:30 a.m. on June 25, six Palestinian militants emerged from a tunnel dug 10 yds. deep and stretching from a private house on the Palestinian side of the border to the rear of the Israeli base. Two of the militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a tank carrying four Israeli soldiers, including Shalit. Two soldiers jumped from the tank and were shot dead. The militants dragged Shalit away and smuggled him through a hole cut in the fence separating Gaza and Israel. When reinforcements finally...
...Guantánamo as a fount of intelligence may already be ending, however. There is only so much intel you can glean from a man who has been interrogated for four years. The base commander, Navy Rear Admiral Harry Harris Jr., told TIME shortly before the Hamdan decision that 75% of detainees held at Gitmo no longer face regular questioning, and some haven't faced it in six months or longer. So, as with many of the other issues raised by the Hamdan case, perhaps the interrogation debate should move away from Gitmo and focus on other places around the world...
...franchisees are Europeans who also own franchises back home, but Colman hopes to expand his U.S. franchise base to 40 offices by the end of 2006. He's betting that Americans' endless appetite for convenience will have them lining up for dentistry that's quick and easy. Painless? He's working...