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...happens, the suicide bombers who attacked us on Sept. 11 were not McVeigh Underground. They were al-Qaeda: young, Islamic, Arab and male. That is not a stereotype. That is a fact. And there is no hiding from it, as there is no hiding from the next al-Qaeda suicide bomber. He has to be found and stopped. And you don't find him by strip searching female flight attendants or 80-year-old Irish nuns...
True, shoe bomber Richard Reid, while young and Islamic and male, was not Arab. No system will catch everyone. But our current system is designed to catch no one because we are spending 90% of our time scrutinizing people everyone knows are no threat. Jesse Jackson once famously lamented how he felt when he would "walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery--then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." Jackson is no racist. He was not passing judgment on his own ethnicity. He was simply reacting to probabilities. He would rather...
Debate over the article has made its way to the College campus, as well, and sparked the Harvard Society of Arab Students (SAS) to plan its own response, said SAS President Leem M. Al-Alami...
Vice President Cheney's Middle East tour has highlighted the difficulties faced by the Bush administration in making Iraq the focus of Phase 2 of its war on terrorism. The message the Vice President heard repeatedly on his rounds of Arab capitals over the past week is that Washington's Arab allies see Ariel Sharon as a bigger threat to regional security than Saddam Hussein, and they want the U.S. to prioritize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rather than a new campaign against Iraq...
...Cheney will have learned that even those Arab regimes most closely allied with Washington are sharply at odds with the U.S. agenda for the region, and cannot be counted on to go along with it. It is no overstatement to say that Arab leaders have been aghast over the Bush talking about toppling Saddam at the same time as appearing to give support to Sharon - a posture that U.S.-aligned Arab states fear will set their own streets ablaze...