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Despite al-Zarqawi's efforts to attract Iraqi insurgent groups into his network, his inner circle of lieutenants and bodyguards is said to consist entirely of foreign fighters. No one can pinpoint how many are operating in Iraq, partly because they remain shadowy even to those who work with them. "The foreigners trust no one, not even their own clothes," says an Iraqi resistance fighter. He adds that al-Zarqawi has become an inspirational figure, like Osama bin Laden, for militants who espouse his methods and religious fervor. "Most are not members of his group in a formal sense," says...
...WATHIQ KHUZAIE/GETTY IMAGES An insurgent fighter in Fallujah...
...nudity--we lose breasts but not buttocks--but in the language. When Samantha (Kim Cattrall), the randiest and thus most excised character, trysts with her fireman lover, TBS cuts a scene of them humping against a fire engine. But it's more jarring when another fire fighter catches her trying on his uniform and yells, "Get the freak out of my freakin' gear! There's a freakin' fire...
DEFENSE Kerry opposes some big-ticket items like the Lockheed Martin joint strike fighter. But Gallagher says any sell-off in Lockheed or other defense stocks related to Kerry proposals would be a buying opportunity because no matter who wins, defense spending is going up--more under Bush. You're voting not just for President but for certain kinds of stocks as well...
...diplomats were being held hostage in Iran, a rescue attempt had crashed in flames in the desert, and the Army--by its generals' own admission--was going "hollow." Though Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter had all promoted the development of new weapons systems--the MX missile, F-117 fighter, the B-2 bomber, the M1 tank--it was under Reagan that those programs bore fruit, along with a mighty, imaginary weapon born all of Reagan's own instincts...