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“After they shot him, they didn’t stop, they just kept driving,” said Baryalai, a 45-year-old day laborer who was at the scene.

At least eight bullet holes were visible in the passenger side of Yunis’ vehicle. His neighbors said they counted four gunshot wounds in his torso. Windows on that side of the car were shattered, and broken glass was sprinkled on the seats and floor.

“Why are these Americans killing innocent people? What was his crime?” asked Arif Khan, 30, a shopkeeper who attends the mosque. “He has so many children, his brother has already passed away, he is taking care of his brothers’ children, too. Who will take care of them now?”

At one point during the attack, which took place late Friday, only a reinforced bathroom door protected the artist, Kurt Westergaard, 74, who was shielding his 5-year-old granddaughter as the attacker — armed with an ax and a knife and shouting “Revenge!” and “Blood!” — tried to smash through the door, according to an account the artist gave to the newspaper that employs him, Jyllands-Posten.

So what has the TSA done in response to the attempted attack? They’ve told airlines to make passengers stay in their seats during the last hour of flight. They’ve made it verboten for passengers to hold anything in their laps, again only during the last hour of flight. Perhaps most hilariously telling, they’ve forbidden pilots from announcing when a plane is flying over certain cities and landmarks.

There is no other way to interpret it: The TSA is saying clearly that they can’t prevent terrorists from getting explosives on airplanes, but by god, they’ll make sure those planes only explode when the TSA says it’s okay.

The city gets 70 percent of its drinking water from the Yamuna, even though the river has become a drain for the city’s filth.

he set up a hidden camera to see what was happening, and shortly thereafter, he saw a strange woman creep out of a deep storage crawlspace over the kitchen, let herself down onto the kitchen table and help herself to his pantry

In the past year, U.N. food agencies have estimated that about a third of the population is malnourished, with rates highest among children, pregnant women and the elderly. Stunting is common, infant mortality is abnormally high, and severe malnutrition among young children has caused widespread mental retardation, doctors and U.N. nutritionists say.

A U.S. military hit list of about 50 suspected drug kingpins is drawing fierce opposition from Afghan officials, who say it could undermine their fragile justice system and trigger a backlash against foreign troops.

The assailant was Abdullah Hassan Tali Assiri, and he was No. 40 on a list of 85 terrorists that the Saudi government considered most dangerous. He was a Saudi but was based in Yemen, where al-Qaeda has been gaining strength. Saudi and Western officials said the attack was planned and launched from Yemen.

Al-Qaeda preyed on Mohammed’s “soft approach” to combating terrorism. The prince is widely known to give personal assurances to militants and treat them with dignity if they renounce al-Qaeda. Those who enter an extremist rehabilitation program are given cars, houses and jobs upon graduation. When Saudi security forces kill terrorism suspects in raids, Prince Mohammed has been known to call the families to console them, according to Western diplomats and Saudi officials.