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...suspect was finally found in Arkansas, 1,204 miles away from the scene of the crime-and the story's end proved deadlier than its beginning. Jacob D. Robida, 18, had become a fugitive just 40 hours earlier in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he had entered the Puzzles Lounge and, after confirming that it was a gay bar, shot two men with a handgun and wounded a third with a hatchet. Authorities searched Robida's home and found neo-Nazi pamphlets and other hate literature aimed at racial and ethnic minorities. But the teenager was already speeding away...
That episode might seem inconsequential in a long and bloody war that's growing deadlier on the ground--20 service members died last week, including 10 Marines killed by a bombing in Fallujah on Thursday--and increasingly unpopular at home. Yet it reflects a critical new dimension to the war, a shifting tide within al-Qaeda and the broader insurgency. The Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi and his network of hard-line jihadis have long been the driving force of the insurgency, transforming it from a nationalist struggle to one fueled by religious zealotry and infused with foreign recruits...
...last time a new influenza virus reached pandemic levels was in 1968, but the episode was not significantly deadlier than a typical bad flu season. Few people who lived through it even knew it occurred. Still, it killed 34,000 Americans. The 1918 pandemic was far more lethal. It killed 675,000 Americans at a time when the U.S. population was 100 million. Fifty million to 100 million people perished worldwide in the 1918 pandemic, according to Nobel laureate F. Macfarlane Burnet. The flu killed more people in 24 weeks than AIDS has killed in 24 years. The difference...
...Still, tourists began to trickle back to Bali relatively soon after the much deadlier 2002 bombs, and in a world becoming increasingly inured to terrorism, the impact of the latest blasts may prove relatively muted. Just up the road from the site of the 2002 bombs, Spanish tourist Fernando Bartolome and two friends sit in the Sendok Restaurant drinking beer and nibbling French fries a few hours after Saturday's bombings. "We are hungry. We have to eat," says Bartolome, who is vacationing in Bali for the first time. "Bombs go off everywhere now. It's just...
...into four shifts, that's an average of 20 guards available to work at any one time. U.S. security officials at the Pentagon and the DOE say that is too small a number to take on a motivated group of suicidal terrorists who probably would be outfitted with weapons deadlier than the rifles used by guards...