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...camp officials banned the use of real names and handed out aliases. U.S. counterterror experts hope to pierce this security veil by showing photos of suspected jihadists to Afghans who worked in the camps as cooks, drivers, translators, bookkeepers and in other positions but who have turned against the Arab al-Qaeda followers. They will also be asked to describe unusual scars, missing fingers and other physical characteristics of terrorists they knew in the camps. All this information will go into a database to be shared among allied intelligence and law-enforcement agencies...
Many other arms stretched the same way: Indian, Persian, Arab, Mongol, Turkish, Chinese. There were also lesser-known tribal groups, like the Kushans, a Central Asian nomadic lot who around the start of the Christian era controlled northern India, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, using the Kabul region as a summer vacation spot. For all their power, the Kushans handled cultural and religious diversity better than those who have ruled Afghanistan in recent decades. Cambon says they showed "an extreme tolerance and true eclecticism if we bear in mind the diverse origins of the divinities that appear on the reverse...
...support the move by the Justice Department to publicize a valuable incentive for immigrants and residents of other nations to help combat terrorism. It certainly presents a better face to the world than the Department’s previous actions that seemed to accuse all Arab-Americans of fraternizing with the enemy. Most importantly, it seems likely to generate new information that will help keep all Americans safe, regardless of their country of origin...
...Since the bombing started in Afghanistan, American commentators have worried a lot about "the Arab street." Well, there's also an "American street." It is more dangerous to the Arab street than the Arab street is to the American, for this reason: the indelible grievance of 9/11 has nullified certain long-nurtured American inhibitions - such as the constraints of political correctness and "hate speech," and even the taboo against speaking of nuclear weapons...
...evidence of a problem, then it?s intrusion - something no American should want to see, because you never know who could be next. People who don?t share our religion or background may figure it?s all well and good to say go after the Muslim groups or the Arab groups," Hooper says ruefully, "but what about the next round of surveillance is directed...