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...sets off the mines with a crank detonator connected to them by wires; the others provide covering fire. Lately they have begun staging more elaborate, two-phase attacks that require up to a dozen men. In these missions, after mines are set off under convoys, hidden fighters launch rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at the stopped vehicles and spray them with machine-gun fire...
...American militants. But U.S. officials believe they are making progress against the loyalists, as more figures from the deposed regime are captured or killed. Pentagon officers say the modest scale of the attacks suggests that they are conducted by small cells operating largely on their own. "If they could launch bigger attacks," says a Central Command officer, "they would...
...selling its programs abroad--everything from Teletubbies to Changing Spaces. The Beeb has deals with non-British cable and satellite operators for BBC World (a 24-hour news channel) and BBC Prime (featuring popular-entertainment shows) as well as BBC America. Already Britain's largest magazine publisher, it's launching a slew of new titles. It's also touting business for a new state-of-the-art broadcast center in London, and has started producing "branded content" for advertisers. British viewers recently saw two-minute "documentaries" that the BBC produced for the French automaker Renault to coincide with the launch...
Sound Check Music downloading services are getting their legal act together, but they haven't yet been able to take it on the road. Apple's iTunes Music Store has rung up 14 million sales in the U.S. since its April launch. Napster, the music industry's original villain, reopens in the U.S. this week as a paid, copyright-friendly service. But users in Europe won't be listening in to either any time soon. Apple is unlikely to offer iTunes in Europe before mid-2004, with Napster waiting even longer to make the crossing. Lengthy negotiations to secure licenses...
After Edwards visited the IOP to launch the MSNBC series “Hardball: Battle for the White House” on Oct. 13, “people were commenting more about the fact that he couldn’t answer what his favorite movie was than what he said about the issues,” Sykes said...