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...peacekeepers in Bosnia have been watching mujahedin who came to fight the Balkan wars - and then stayed on. But last week, a homegrown foe appeared, as they linked a local Bosnian man to the al-Qaeda network. Sabahudin Fiuljanin, 32, was detained six weeks ago near Eagle Base, the U.S. military encampment in northern Bosnia. Searches of his home uncovered a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, three passports acquired in the first half of 2001 and, most significantly, an Islamic last will and testament known as a vasiet, in which, a Western official told TIME, Fiuljanin wrote to his wife...
...credits his thorough training with his survival. “A lot of things you learned become critical when you live in the bush for five days waiting for terrorists to pass by and kill you,” he says. Most of his time was spent at a base in a border zone between Lebanon and Israel, defending Israelis against the militant group Hezbollah. “We would shoot mortars at each other a lot. No biggie,” Heilman says...
Amidst all this action, Heilman found time to apply to transfer to Harvard. He recalls talking on the phone to a Harvard official while on an artillery base, explaining—while gunfire was echoing in the background—that, no, he couldn’t retake...
...employees’ compensation includes a base salary, a lump sum for meeting their benchmarks and a performance bonus for exceeding them over a five-year period...
Sandberg and his climbing partner Richard Doucette of Watertown were hit by the avalanche while still at the base of the ravine, as they were putting on their ropes in preparation of ascending, Joosen said...