Word: arabize
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...ordinary at the time, so ominous in hindsight. An American Airlines agent at Dulles Airport in Virginia looked up as two polite young men of Arab origin handed over their tickets. Odd: they were waiting in the coach-class line, dressed in inexpensive clothes, but their tickets were first class, one way. Prepaid at $2,400 each. "Oil money," thought the agent. Such passengers are common at Dulles, but these two looked a bit young: one, around 20, spoke a little English; his brother, even younger, spoke none. And they seemed awfully thin, almost underfed. The agent saw they...
...Israel's Mossad, experts in this sort of thing, estimate that it took at least two years and 100 people to pull it off. Someone thought long and hard how to do it, then found willing fanatics to carry it out. They carried different passports--Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon--and perhaps pledged fealty to different radical factions. What brought them together was first a hatred of America for causing their resentments and frustrations, and then someone who knew how to transform their rage into bloody results. Osama bin Laden may be the top general in charge...
...Pervez Musharraf in the face of a domestic backlash against his support for Washington's drive to get Bin Laden. Also, the Bush administration has plainly assumed a more activist role in knocking together Israeli and Palestinian heads to achieve a cease-fire, fearing that ongoing violence may hinder Arab support for the campaign against Bin Laden...
...President Bush's inclusive words established a positive climate for U.S. coalition-building, his sober, nuanced explanation on the nature of the battle ahead signaled an awareness of the concerns of many European, Arab and Muslim allies. U.S. media outlets had previously reported on a debate inside the Bush administration over the scale and scope of "Operation Infinite Justice," in which more hawkish advisers had counseled including Iraq in an initial list of targets for retaliation, while Secretary of State Colin Powell had reportedly cautioned that this would alienate Arab allies and potentially destroy the coalition. President Bush's speech...
...alliance will, no doubt, involve ongoing political dialogue with many of its members on these and many other issues. But President Bush on Thursday raised the poles of a very big tent. European allies may have grumbled about unilateralism during the first six months of the Bush administration and Arab allies may have fretted over Washington's absence from the Iraeli-Palestinian crisis. But Thursday's speech will be remembered as the moment when President Bush became, in every sense, a world leader...