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Sunday, June 25, 2006

News and commentary:

"An undated picture of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit..."
(Reuters, 2006/06/25)
"An undated picture of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, 19, released by his family June 25, 2006. Israeli leaders decided on Sunday to hold off launching a military response to a raid from Gaza that killed two soldiers, saying they would wait two days to see if militants free a third soldier who was abducted, an Israeli political source said."

"Palestinians attack Israeli army post, kill 2 soldiers, kidnap a third" (Aron Heller, AP/Yahoo! News, Reuters, 2006/06/25)
"Palestinian guerrillas tunnelled into Israel underneath a Gaza border crossing Sunday, killed two Israeli soldiers and captured another in an assault that raised the threat of an all-out conflict in Gaza just a year after Israel's pullout.
Israel, which sent ground troops into Gaza after the assault, blamed the Hamas-led government and warned that Palestinian militants and their leaders will be killed if the abducted soldier is harmed. The political wing of Hamas appealed for restraint. ...
Hamas played a leading role in the long-planned attack, and the operation cast a shadow over talks between Hamas and moderate Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah over a joint program that includes implicit recognition of Israel, as well as Hamas efforts to counter its image as a terror group and ease Western sanctions. ...
"This operation is a natural response to the Israeli crimes of killing women and children, and the assassination of two (militant) leaders," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said. ...
Palestinians spent months digging an 800-metre tunnel starting in Gaza and stretching 300 metres into Israel. Bursting through before dawn, seven or eight militants attacked the Israeli guard post at the Kerem Shalom crossing point from the rear, "one of the reasons the troops were surprised," military spokesman Capt. Jacob Dallal said.
The attackers hurled grenades into a tank, killing two soldiers, badly wounding another and capturing the fourth.
Most of Israel's attention was focused on the missing soldier, identified as Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19."

"The Extremist Is Never Alone" (Fouad Ajami, OpinionJournal, 2006/06/25)
"Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's tribe in Jordan, the Al-Khalayleh, claimed last November that they had disowned the man who had sown havoc in Iraq. They made that public declaration in the aftermath of his attack on three Amman hotels. That day, Nov. 9, 2005, was dubbed by the Jordanians as their own 9/11. But blood has its claims, and in truth Zarqawi had been, and remained, a man of high standing in Jordan and in other Arab lands. After his death, the regime in Amman may have announced that his corpse would not "stain Jordan's soil," but his clan held a "martyr's wedding" for him, and four members of Jordan's Parliament turned up at that funeral ceremony. Grant Jordan's rulers their due: They know that a Zarqawi grave on Jordanian soil would become a shrine to his cult. ...
The extremist is never alone; the terrorist on the fringe of political life always works with the winks and nods of the society that gives him cover. ...
Doubtless, they are misfits in their homelands who have come to Iraq to kill and be killed because they were not given a dream of normalcy, nor modern skills, nor a place in the world. Zarqawi epitomized the jihadists: Life in Jordan offered him little. He had been unable to find work that would sustain him. He hit his stride and found his calling in the "fields of battle" in Afghanistan and Iraq. There would come his way fame and money; the "charities" would find their way to him. Devotees would give him -- a one-time prison thug -- the honorific title of sheikh, acclaim him for picking up the Sunni standard against crusaders and apostates. His was no solitary campaign. He was a witness to his own glory: He no doubt watched his own videotapes on the satellite TV channels of the Arab world."

"Iraqi Qaeda-led group says Russian hostages killed" (Inal Ersan, Reuters, 2006/06/25)
"An al Qaeda-led group posted video footage on the Internet on Sunday showing the killing of three men it said were Russian hostages seized in Iraq earlier this month.
The images, posted on a Web site often used by militants, showed two masked militants beheading of a man and the "execution" of another by shooting. It also showed the beheaded body of a third.
The fate of a fourth hostage was not clear.
"This is the video for carrying out God's ruling against the Russian diplomats which we present to heal the hearts of believers and in revenge for our brothers and sisters for the torture and killing they receive at the hands of the infidel Russian government," the said in a statement posted on the site.
Before the killings, the video, whose authenticity could not be verified, showed four men against a dark red backdrop speaking Russian in statements dated June 13. It did not say when the deaths took place.
In their statements, the bearded men identified themselves and described the nature of their jobs at the Russian mission in Iraq -- a third secretary, a cook, a driver and a guard.
The Mujahideen Shura Council defended the killings as an eye-for-an-eye measure, citing a verse of the Koran -- Islam's holy book -- which says: "Those who assault you, you shall assault with the same (form) of assault."
"Beggar scholars (affiliated with governments) will speak that slaughtering infidels is sacrilegious and so on. We tell them that this is the book of God, which will be the judge," its statement said."

Saturday, June 24, 2006

News and commentary:

"Muslims Address Silence on Europe Attacks" (Scheherezade Faramarzi, AP/My Way, 2006/06/24)
"Europe's Muslims have remained largely silent in the face of terrorist attacks that have killed 254 people in Madrid, London and Amsterdam. Europeans want to know why.":
"For some of the more than five dozen Muslims interviewed for this story in Amsterdam, Paris and London, it's a sense of shame, or even guilt, that innocents have been killed in the name of Islam; they say those feelings make them seek to be "invisible." For those lucky enough to have jobs, there is little time to protest or even write letters to newspapers. For others, there is fear of being branded anti-Islam in their communities.
Dutch Muslim rapper Yassine SB wrote a song about his anger over Van Gogh's murder but scrapped plans to perform it out of fear of being ostracized by the Islamic community. He also turned down requests by a popular Amsterdam radio station to sing a song against terrorism.
"If you sing that, it's like you choose the Dutch, not Muslims," said Yassine SB - the initials stand for his surname Sahsah Bahida - who is popular among Dutch North African youths like himself for his songs against racism.
"People will say 'you are a traitor,'" said the 20-year-old musician.
In the Netherlands, Somali-born Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali - who wrote the script for Van Gogh's movie "Submission" - went into hiding after receiving death threats for her condemnations of Islam. And in the United States, Syrian-born psychologist Wafa Sultan's calls for Islamic reform also earned her death threats."

Friday, June 23, 2006

News and commentary:

"What Does Muslim Immigration Cost Europe?" (Fjordman, Dhimmi Watch, 2006/06/23)
"Oslo will have a non-Western majority in a few decades, if the current trends continue. There are now several researchers who predict that in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, the native population and their descendants will become a minority in their own country within this century. The only question is when.":
"Journalist Halvor Tjønn from newspaper Aftenposten, one of the few genuinely critical journalists in the country, in June 2006 cited a report from NHO, the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise. NHO stated that the current immigration policies were a serious threat to the country's economy. Norway is the planet's third largest exporter of oil, next to Saudi Arabia and Russia. Yet according to NHO, there is a risk that much of the profit Norway earns from oil could be spent on paying welfare for a rapidly growing immigrant population. ...
More than half of the social security benefits in the city of Oslo are spent of non-Western immigrants, a portion that has grown tremendously over the years. City council leader Erling Lae warns against prejudice and states that without immigrants, there would be "complete chaos" in Oslo. ...
Muslim immigration has led to a spike in organized and violent crime, too. As early as 2002, Lars Hedegaard together with Dr. Daniel Pipes wrote about how Third-world immigrants - most of them Muslims from countries such as Turkey, Somalia, Pakistan, Lebanon and Iraq - constituted less than 5 percent of the population but consumed upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending. What's worse, however, is that Muslims were only 4 percent of Denmark's 5.4 million people but made up a majority of the country's convicted rapists, an especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims were non-Muslim. Similar, if lesser, disproportions were found in other crimes."

"The multicultural nirvana" (Melanie Phillips, melaniephillips.com, 2006/06/23)
Phillips on the poll below: "Multiculturalism has had two principal effects that are relevant here. First, it has left all immigrants stranded in cultural limbo. Since Britain no longer upholds its own majority culture on the grounds that minority values equal and even trump those of the majority, there’s no culture for immigrants to be integrated into. Into the resulting vacuum sweeps radical Islamism to provide an identity based on hatred, violence and lies.
Second, Britain’s grievance culture, which holds that minorities cannot be blamed for any wrong they may do because they are all victims of the majority, has lethally reinforced the sense of paranoia and victimisation which fuels the jihad. And third, the specific paranoid conspiracy theory which animates Islamist grievance, which holds that the west is on a mission to destroy Islam and that the strings of the west are being pulled by the Jews, is actually reflected back and reinforced by the accepted discourse in Britain which holds that America is a rogue superpower out of control, which talks up western ‘atrocities’ in Iraq, which demonises Israel and which proclaims that the Jews are a conspiracy which has hijacked American foreign policy in the interests of the Jewish state.
Elements of all this deformity of thinking are present throughout Europe. But it is Britain where multicultural victimology and national self-loathing are most entrenched. Who can be surprised, therefore, that Britain’s Muslims hate their host country, the west and the Jews the most when Britain so hates itself, the Judeo-Christian heritage that underpins it — and the country whose existence reminds it of a shameful history of betrayal, appeasement and prejudice that it wants to forget?"

"Poll shows Muslims in Britain are the most anti-western in Europe" (Julian Borger, The Guardian, 2006/06/23)
"Public opinion in Britain is mostly favourable towards Muslims, but the feeling is not requited by British Muslims, who are among the most embittered in the western world, according to a global poll published yesterday. ...
By contrast, the poll found that British Muslims represented a "notable exception" in Europe, with far more negative views of westerners than Islamic minorities elsewhere on the continent. A significant majority viewed western populations as selfish, arrogant, greedy and immoral. Just over half said westerners were violent. While the overwhelming majority of European Muslims said westerners were respectful of women, fewer than half British Muslims agreed. Another startling result found that only 32% of Muslims in Britain had a favourable opinion of Jews, compared with 71% of French Muslims.
Across the board, Muslim attitudes in Britain more resembled public opinion in Islamic countries in the Middle East and Asia than elsewhere in Europe. ...
The Pew poll found that British Muslims are far more likely than their European counterparts to harbour conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks. Only 17% believed that Arabs were involved, compared with 48% in France." (See also: "Muslims 'Still in Denial' About 9/11, Pew Survey Finds" (Meg Bortin, The New York Times, 2006/06/22))

Thursday, June 22, 2006

News and commentary:

"Muslims 'Still in Denial' About 9/11, Pew Survey Finds" (Meg Bortin, The New York Times, 2006/06/22)
"Non-Muslim Westerners and Muslims around the world have widely different views of world events, and each group tends to view the other as violent, intolerant, and lacking in respect for women, a new international survey of more than 14,000 people in 13 nations indicates.
In what the survey, part of the Pew Global Attitudes Project for 2006, called one of its most striking findings, majorities in Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan and Turkey — Muslim countries with fairly strong ties to America — said, for example, that they did not believe that Arabs carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. The findings, illustrating the chasm in beliefs, follow another year of violence and tension centered around that divide. In the past 12 months, there have been terrorist bombings in London, riots in France by unemployed youths, many of them Muslim, a global uproar over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and no letup to the war in Iraq. ...
Disbelief was strong among Muslims that Arabs were behind the Sept. 11 attacks, with 65 percent in Indonesia and 59 percent in Turkey, for example, expressing that viewpoint. Even in Britain, 56 percent of the Muslims surveyed did not believe that Arabs carried out the attacks. The results, Mr. Kohut said, show that "many Muslims are still in denial" about something that even Osama bin Laden has acknowledged."

"Most Dutch say Islam incompatible with West" (George Conger, The Jerusalem Post, 2006/06/22)
"Islam is incompatible with modern Western society, according to a majority of those responding to a recent Dutch survey. Most of the people polled expressed a negative view of Islam and Muslims.
The survey was released the same week that a Dutch Justice Ministry report said radical Islam had made significant inroads among the country's immigrants, posing a threat to the nation's security.
Known for its laissez-faire social attitudes, the sharp turn in public opinion against Islam in the Netherlands has sparked a debate that has prompted criticism of Queen Beatrix and the government for allegedly abandoning Western values in the face of Muslim pressure.
The poll conducted by Dutch research firm Motivaction for the GPD newspaper chain on June 2 found that 63 percent of those surveyed believed Islam was incompatible with modern European life.
More than a quarter of respondents said Muslim immigrants were rude, lazy, intolerant and prone to criminal behavior. They said the increase in Muslim immigration has had a negative effect on civic and social life, with almost 80 percent saying relations between Muslims and non-Muslims had become strained.
Government-backed initiatives to acculturate Muslim immigrants had failed, respondents said, as most believed that many immigrants had walled themselves off from Western society in an attempt to create outposts of their home cultures on Dutch soil."

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

News and commentary:

"HRW's selective ire" (The Jerusalem Post, 2006/06/21)
"When a Palestinian family was wiped out by an explosion on a Gaza beach on June 9, the reaction was swift and furious. Though the IDF could not immediately determine whether it was responsible for the tragedy, international newspaper headlines and governments immediately pronounced their verdict.
"Israeli Fire Kills 7 Beachgoers in Gaza," blared The Washington Post.
"Errant Shell Turns Girl Into Palestinian Icon," proclaimed the New York Times, referring to a surviving member of the decimated family. "Death on the Beach: Seven Palestinians Killed as Israeli Shells Hit Family Picnic," the Guardian headlined its account. ...
Hamas immediately called off its "cease-fire" and over the next three days over 100 Kassam missiles rained down on Sderot. No dissent could be heard from PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, who said, "Undoubtedly... [Israel committed] a bloody massacre against civilians" and "one of the biggest crimes of human genocide against the Palestinians."
Given all of this outrage, one might have expected a dramatic change of tone when it turned out that the explosion that killed the Palestinian family was not from errant Israeli artillery fire. No such change, unfortunately, has been evident." (See also: "Who Is to Blame for Grief on a Beach?" (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2006/06/16))

"New Al Qaeda Chief: I slit their throats" (Mark Ellis, The Daily Mirror, 2006/06/21)
"THE new head of al-Qaeda in Iraq personally slit the throats of two US soldiers whose bodies were found near Baghdad, it was claimed last night.
A statement on the internet gloated that Abu Hamza al-Muhajir had "implemented" sentence on the "two captive crusader parasites".
And it is feared al-Qaeda has scored a propaganda coup by carrying out the atrocity despite a huge US-led hunt for privates Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, and Kristian Menchaca, 23.
More than 8,000 Iraqi and US troops, backed by fighter and spotter planes, searched for the soldiers who were snatched on Friday from a checkpoint in Yusifiya, 12 miles south of Baghdad. ...
The killers' statement, supposedly from the al-Qaeda-led Mujahideen Shura Council - an umbrella body of Sunni militant groups - could not be authenticated.
Posted on a web forum used by Islamists, it said: "We bring good tidings to the nation of Islam from the battlefields. O my nation: rejoice that the ruling of God... against the two captive crusader parasites has been carried out by having their throats slit.
"God Almighty has graced the leader Abu Hamza al-Muhajir... with implementation of the sentence."

"Some 85 Iraqi workers abducted by gunmen" (AP/Yahoo! News, 2006/06/21)
"Gunman abducted about 85 workers Wednesday as they left an industrial plant north of Baghdad, police and a witness said.
The workers were thought to be mostly Shiite and the plant is located in a predominantly Sunni Arab area.
The witness said that about 85 workers were taken near the parking lot of the al-Nasr General Complex in Taji, 12 miles north of Baghdad, while police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said they filled up a bus and a minivan. Taji is predominantly Sunni Arab area that has seen much insurgent activity.
Kamel Mohammed, an engineer working at the plant, said by telephone he saw two of the plant's buses and a minivan intercepted by gunmen in three sedans.
The two buses and the single minivan ferry workers from the plant to the Shiite areas of Shula and Hurrayah in Baghdad.
Other workers leaving the plant in their own cars were forced by the gunmen to get into the buses.
The incident took place about 50 yards from the plant's parking lot."

"Terrorist Eden" (James Taranto, Best of the Web Today, 2006/06/21)
"Horrific news out of Iraq, where two U.S. soldiers, Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker, were either killed or captured and later killed in an enemy attack Friday. Their bodies were found Monday, CNN reports, "mutilated and booby-trapped"... ... To most of us, this is a reminder of the depravity of our enemies. But blogress Jeralyn Merritt sees it as a reminder of America's sins:

Violence begets violence. Inhumanity and cruelty bring more of the same. The whole world is watching and we don't have the right to claim the moral high ground so long as those responsible for the abuses at Guantanamo and detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan go unpunished, the policies stand uncorrected and the Pentagon continues to prevent the media from learning the facts first-hand.

The always excitable Andrew Sullivan similarly laments "the cycle of depravity and defeat."
This rhetoric about "cycles" appears to reflect a theory of moral equivalence, but in fact it is something else. After all, if the two sides were morally equivalent, one could apply this reasoning in reverse--excusing, for example, the alleged massacre at Haditha on the ground that it was "provoked" by a bombing that killed a U.S. serviceman--and hey, violence begets violence.
But America's critics never make this argument, and its defenders seldom do. That is because it is understood that America knows better. If it is true that U.S. Marines murdered civilians in cold blood at Haditha, the other side's brutality does not excuse it. Only the enemy's evil acts are thought to be explained away by ours.
Implicit in the "cycle" theory, then, is the premise that the enemy is innocent--not in the sense of having done nothing wrong, but in the sense of not knowing any better. The enemy lacks the knowledge of good and evil--or, to put it in theological terms, he is free of original sin."

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

News and commentary:

"Bodies of G.I.'s Show Signs of Torture, Iraqi General Says" (Dexter Filkins, The New York Times, 2006/06/20)
"The American military said today that it had found the remains of what appears to be the two American soldiers captured by insurgents last week in an ambush south of the capital, and a senior Iraqi military official said the two men had been "brutally tortured."
An American military official in Baghdad, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that both bodies showed evidence of "severe trauma" and that they could not be conclusively identified. Insurgents had planted "numerous" bombs along the road leading to the bodies, and around the bodies themselves, the official said, slowing the retrieval of the Americans by 12 hours. ...
General Caldwell declined to speak in detail about the physical condition of those who had been found, but said that the cause of death could not be determined. He said the remains of the men would be sent to the United States for DNA testing to determine definitively their identities. That seemed to suggest that the two Americans had been wounded or mutilated beyond recognition.
"We couldn't identify them," the American military official in Baghdad said.
Maj. Gen. Abdul Azziz Mohammed Jassim, the chief of operations of the Ministry of Defense, said that he had seen an official report and that he could confirm the two Americans had been "killed in a very brutal way and tortured."
"There were traces of torture on their bodies, very clear traces," General Jassim said. "It was a brutal torture. The torture was something unnatural."
The general said that he was unable to provide any more details."

"The protocols of the elders of Brussels'" (Adi Schwartz, Haaretz, 2006/06/20)
An interview with Bat Ye'or: "'This is a matter of a total transformation of Europe, which is the result of an intentional policy,' says Bat Ye'or in an interview. "We are now heading towards a total change in Europe, which will be more and more Islamicized and will become a political satellite of the Arab and Muslim world. The European leaders have decided on an alliance with the Arab world, through which they have committed to accept the Arab and Muslim approach toward the United States and Israel. This is not only with respect to foreign policy, but also on issues engaging European society from within, such as immigration, the integration of the immigrants and the idea that Islam is part of Europe." ...
What is the worst-case scenario? Where is Europe going?
'If it keeps on this way, Europe will become a vassal, a satellite of the Arab world, which is larger in terms of numbers. Demographically, we are already losing. The vacuum that has been created in Europe will be filled by the children of immigrants. Today we already know that in France the children of the immigrants are opposed to the French curriculum and do not want to learn about the Holocaust. They want Arab-Muslim history and are opposed to European history. This is the Islamization of the culture.'"

"France Detains 17 Suspected Finance Associates of Radical Islamic Terror Group" (AP/FOX News, 2006/06/20)
"PARIS — Police have detained a prayer leader at a suburban Paris mosque and 16 associates as part of an investigation into alleged terror financing, a police official said Tuesday.
Dahou Meskine, imam at the mosque in the suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, and the 16 others were apprehended in separate raids around the capital early Monday, the official said.
Prosecutors believe the suspects were involved in a money-laundering scheme to benefit radical Islamic groups, the official said on condition of because the case is ongoing. ...
Meskine is a member of the Council of Imams of France, the judicial officials said, and is reported to be a founder of France's first Muslim middle school. The school could not be reached for comment Tuesday."

"Two Missing U.S. Soldiers Found Dead, Iraq Official Says" (Jonathan Finer, The Washington Post, 2006/06/20)
"BAGHDAD, July 20--The two U.S. soldiers missing since an attack on a checkpoint last week were found dead near a power plant in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad, according to an Iraqi defense official.
General Abdul Aziz Muhammed, head of operations at Iraqi Ministry of Defense said in a news conference in Baghdad this afternoon that the soldiers had been "barbarically" killed and that there were traces of torture on their bodies.
He offered no further details. U.S. officials could not immediately be reached for comment or confirmation.
The Army yesterday identified the missing soldiers as Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore. They were attacked at a checkpoint near Yusufiyah. A third soldier, Spec. David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Mass., was killed in the incident.
More than 8,000 U.S. and Iraqi forces had launched a massive search for the army privates. In a statement posted to the Internet yesterday, the insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq had claimed to have abducted the soldiers."

"Tribal Taleban bar ultrasound tests of female patient by male" (Khaleej Times, 2006/06/20)
Taleban II: "ISLAMABAD — Taliban in tribal areas have warned male doctors against carrying out ultrasound tests on female patients.
In a pamphlet from the ‘North Waziristan Mujahideen’, they demanded that female doctors be appointed to carry out the procedure.
“We will award punishment in accordance with Islamic laws if any male doctor is found to be carrying out ultrasound tests on female patients,” read the pamphlet pasted on the main streets of Miranshah, according to media reports." (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch.)

"Taleban use children as shields to fight British" (Tim Albone, The Times, 2006/06/20)
Taleban I: "TALEBAN fighters used women and children as human shields as they tried to escape into the mountains of Afghanistan, British troops claimed yesterday.
The tactics were revealed in the first account by those who fought in one of the main battles faced by the men of 3 Para and the Royal Gurkha Rifles in Helmand province, where 3,300 British troops are stationed.
The Taleban’s use of human shields happened during a six-hour battle that began when British troops arrived in a remote area to flush out a suspected Taleban hideout.
They came under attack seven times and fired 2,000 rounds as the rebels set ambushes and opened fire with rocket-propelled grenades. About 21 Taleban were killed.
“It happened twice where they pushed women and children in front of them. The first time they ran into a compound and pushed them out the front to stop the assault,” said Corporal Quintin Poll, 29, from Norfolk.
'The second time they were firing through a building with women and children inside. My guys had to go around the left and right to get them.'"

Monday, June 19, 2006

News and commentary:

"Islam Channel sponsors anti-Zionist debate in London" (Jonny Paul, The Jerusalem Post, 2006/06/19)
"LONDON - Informed, honest debate on the Middle East has been stifled because of a fear of being accused of anti-Semitism, according to the participants in a discussion hosted by the Islam Channel in central London on Thursday. The broadcaster is the largest Islamic television outlet in Europe.
The discussion, titled: "Why anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism," was filmed against a backdrop reading "Zionism: The cancer at the heart of international affairs."
The discussion was chaired by Alan Hart, a former ITN and BBC correspondent whose latest book, "Zionism: The real enemy of the Jews" was recently published. He said, "The anti-Semitism card is something the Zionists have exploited to suppress debate."
He said the mainstream media had concealed "the truth of history" out of fear of offending Jews and thanked CEO Mohammed Ali of the Islam Channel for "his courage in widening the debate." (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch.)

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"Exclusive Book Excerpt: How an Al-Qaeda Cell Planned a Poison-gas Attack on the N.Y. Subway" (TIME, 2006/06/17)
"Who Is to Blame for Grief on a Beach?" (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2006/06/16)

 

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