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...commodities and components to feed China's factories - which in turn rely heavily upon the U.S. as the consumer of last resort. Heightened geopolitical tensions could compound the risks in the markets. The rapidly escalating conflict in the Middle East, along with the North Korean missile crisis and another terrorist attack in India, has already led to a ratcheting up of oil prices. Higher oil prices, bad for businesses everywhere, may be particularly damaging right now. That's because they place another burden - more expensive gasoline and utility charges - on U.S. consumers, who are short of savings and unable...
...Number of potential terrorist targets in Indiana--including the Amish Country Popcorn Factory--as of January 2006, the most of any state in the National Asset Database, according to a Department of Homeland Security report released last week...
KILLED. Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen terrorist who masterminded numerous large-scale attacks on Russian civilians, including a siege of a school in the town of Beslan that killed 331 people, most of them children, and a 2002 attack on a theater in Moscow leaving 171 people dead; when a bomb in his car exploded in the republic of Ingushetia, bordering Chechnya. While Basayev's supporters said the explosion was accidental, Russian forces said they killed Basayev as part of a long-planned sting operation...
...East was an oblique statement, open to opposite interpretations. The U.S. and Britain see it as emphasizing Israel's right to self-defense against acts of aggression; for Russia, it emphasizes the call for Israel to show restraint. The irony of Putin lecturing the Israelis about proportionate response to terrorist provocations was not lost on the Chechens, hundreds of thousands of whom have suffered the effects of Putin's own brand of restraint...
...Blame Pakistan, for one thing. On Friday, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh linked the bombings to its neighbor, saying, "These terrorist modules are instigated, inspired and supported by elements across the border." Tortuous peace talks between the two countries now seem all the more challenging, with India already announcing that it might postpone a meeting with Pakistan that had been scheduled for this week. Singh said he warned Pakistan's leaders "that if the acts of terrorism are not controlled, it is exceedingly difficult for any government to carry forward what may be called a normalization and peace process...