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...reconnaissance on the key city of Basra is proving difficult. Overhead surveillance can help identify targets and track large weapons and troop movements. "We know where everything is," the Western diplomat asserts. But Special Forces Groups face a much harder task, forging local alliances and even gauging what the mood is on the ground. "Southern Iraq is an intelligence black hole," says a senior British military source, noting that Marine assault units will be guided into the area by Iraqi exiles, some of whom haven't been inside their native land for a decade...
...surpasses—that of their peers (Papa Roach’s Infest and Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory spring to mind). The question of whether it will enjoy the popularity of those platinum-selling albums remains to be seen. Is America in the mood for another bombastic nu-metal act? “Bullitproof” currently sits at No. 20 on MTV2’s Rock countdown. Where it goes from here is anyone’s guess...
...than speed or heat or flash. Dean will have a role to play: he'll sharpen the others, teach them how to speak English, force them to clarify their positions. But I suspect that a year from now, when the voting begins, the public will be more in the mood for comfort food--perhaps even macaroni and cheese...
...next morning, over a breakfast of fried noodles, the mood among the Flying Horses' club management is far less sanguine. It turns out Gazza did not clear his father and Jimmy's stay with the team. It is all, says Shi Minghua, a team administrator, highly irregular. The famous foreigner has been allowed some latitude, like an extended curfew, his own private room and even an unchaperoned trip to the area's famous hot springs. But inviting an entourage of two men and six bellies is just too much, especially in a country so regimented that Olympic athletes...
...giant wooden shoes could fail, but last week Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, became the country's third largest bankruptcy this year, with liabilities of $1.95 billion. With unemployment at record highs, people in the world's second-biggest economy are in no mood to play; indeed, the once-booming leisure industry is also responsible for the country's two largest bankruptcies. The fall of Huis Ten Bosch is most significant because it highlights Japan's banking crisis. Its main creditor and the world's biggest bank in terms of assets, Mizuho, says the failure...