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...appearance in Britain, he interviewed Real Madrid soccer player David Beckham and his wife, Posh Spice Victoria Beckham, in a burgundy leather suit with the words “Save Africa” written on the back just above a map of Italy...
...kind that offend purists. And both have targeted Asia for growth. Last year the NBA sent stars and cheerleaders to China in the off-season, while Premier League clubs have got into the habit of raking in big bucks from preseason tours of Asia. Indeed, one reason that Real Madrid was prepared to pay Manchester United $41 million last year for Beckham-a god in Asia-was so that the Spanish club could market itself more aggressively in the Far East...
From Spanish Basques to Moroccan Muslims to--an Aloha, Ore., lawyer? The global probe into the March 11 train bombings that killed 191 people in Madrid homed in on suburban Portland last week, when the FBI took former Army officer and Muslim convert Brandon Mayfield, 37, into custody on a material witness warrant. So far, 18 people have been charged in the attacks, which are being blamed on a Morocco-based cell of Muslim extremists. In March, a plastic shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the attacks was discovered inside a stolen white van near a suburban Madrid...
...complete solution to the CIA's problem of gathering human intelligence, the NOC program can help. It's extremely expensive and dangerous to build a credible non-official cover by planting someone in, say, a corporate executive post in Islamabad or as a cell phone salesman in Madrid - positions in which a CIA officer would have no diplomatic immunity from arrest by the host government and little protection from deadly retribution by terrorists. Worse, the CIA has faced major bureaucratic hurdles in setting up an infrastructure to ensure that an NOC appears to be paid by a cover employer while...
...present generation has to remember those who made sacrifices on their behalf." - By Phil Zabriskie New War, Old Tactics GERMANY As the trial of Tunisian Ihsan Garnaoui opened in Berlin, prosecutors revived tactics used against the Red Army Faction in the 1970s. Garnaoui, believed to have been planning a Madrid-style bombing campaign...