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...absolutely certain), which could be telling. Baath Party and Fedayeen Saddam guerrillas have not used suicide bombs before. "It's not part of the Iraqi culture, military or political," says Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani, a retired general of the Iraqi special forces. But Ansar al-Islam, which was driven from its base at the northeastern border with Iran during the war, used suicide attacks last spring near Halabja, and an Iraqi intelligence officer working with the CIA says, "Our feeling is that Ansar are the most likely ones, even if it was financed or supported by someone else...
...side of the divide would have constituted 45 percent of the total, and their birthrate was a lot higher. But the war that began in 1948 when Israel?s Arab neighbors rejected the partition plan and invaded resolved that problem, as more than half of the Arab population were driven form their homes by the fighting, and were barred by law from returning...
...entertainment industry has discovered a new medium for generating a blockbuster: the wearable kind. "It's a whole new future of fashion that's driven by a lot of change and spirit and attitude and pop-culture currency, and those things are usually driven by entertainment artists," says ad executive Peter Arnell, who devised the marketing strategy for Sodi's line...
...turn. The borrowed 1999 Mercedes Benz E55 AMG I was driving purred with anticipation. But I wasn't exactly purring--I'd never driven as fast for as long as I was about to. Sweat from anxiety, not heat, trickled inside my full-body racing suit. What the hell was I doing...
...Boudin, 60, former member of the radical Weather Underground group, after serving 22 years in prison; in New York. In 1981 members of the Black Liberation Army, working with the Weather Underground, murdered a Brinks security guard while robbing an armored car, then transferred $1.6 million to a truck driven by Boudin. Two police officers were killed in the getaway...