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...position in al-Qaeda's murderous meritocracy. He rose to become its chief military planner--and perhaps the world's most dangerous terrorist operative--until Pakistani agents nabbed him at 2:30 a.m. Saturday at a house in Rawalpindi owned by a retired 75-year-old microbiologist. Unlike the wild shoot-out in Pakistan that preceded the capture in September of another al-Qaeda honcho, Ramzi Binalshibh, Mohammed's capture went quietly. Inside the rambling, two-story house, in a neighborhood inhabited by retired army generals, Pakistani Interior Ministry officials say they found Mohammed and another suspected al-Qaeda operative...
Mohammed never fit the image of a wild-eyed or even devout jihadi. With his easy smile and placid eyes, he had a reputation as a charmer and a ladies' man. When Yousef and Mohammed weren't plotting destruction together in Manila, they were partying, say Philippine intelligence agents. Mohammed took up with a bar girl he met at the Cotton Candy Club. Later he hired a helicopter and pilot to impress a female dentist he was courting. Yousef and Mohammed took their girlfriends scuba diving at beach resorts, but Mohammed remained an enigma even to the women he dated...
...account for just 5% of the $14.9 billion worth of goods sold on the site last year. That makes eBay "the most democratic place on the Web," says Johnson of Forrester Research. As for shoppers, they tend to either love or hate eBay's freewheeling, bazaar-like atmosphere and wild mix of sellers and products. Some would rather pay a little more for quicker, more streamlined shopping--just like out there in real life...
Junior Jesse Jantzen (149 lbs.) remained untouchable, recording three falls and an 11-0 shutout en route to his second consecutive championship. Senior Pat O’Donnell lost a close semifinal match to the eventual 174-pound champion Brad Dillon of Lehigh and ultimately finished fourth, earning a wild-card bid to the NCAAs...
...terrible freedom of war - with its rush of animal adrenaline, its wild all-is-permitted, its violent necessities - inverts the moral order. Killing, normally forbidden, is suddenly sanctioned, even deemed heroic. Stakes are high. So is fear. Paranoia drifts on the wind like mustard gas. Disagreement may look like treason. Due process may appear to be an unaffordable luxury. The First Amendment may seem optional. The peacetime fail-safe checks and balances (Congress and courts keeping the presidency honest) may strip themselves down to a military principle - deference to the chain of command, and to the Com-mander in Chief...