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...source of inspiration for suicide bombers is The Lover of Angels, by Abdullah Azzam, one of Osama bin Laden's spiritual mentors, which tells stories of jihadis who died fighting Soviet occupying troops in Afghanistan. And Marwan is listening to taped speeches that address subjects like the rewards that await warriors in heaven. In recent months, jihadist groups have also begun showing recruits lurid videos of successful suicide hits. A U.S. official in Baghdad who studies suicide terrorism says some volunteers even visit the sites of previous bombings for inspiration...
Word of the miraculous survivals fired up the hopes of some 2,000 relatives and friends of passengers who by now had reached the small town of Fujioka, 35 miles northeast of Mount Osutaka, to await the results of the search. But no one else was found alive...
...heavies now await news on the NCAA Championships, which will take place from May 26-29 in Sacramento, Calif. Invitations will be distributed tomorrow at 4 p.m., and the Black and White certainly wants to be among the chosen ones...
...film is a relatively straightforward account of the rise and fall of Enron, the infamous energy company whose top executives carted away hundreds of millions while their investors and employees lost billions. Top executives, such as CEO Ken Lay, are currently under house arrest and await trial next January...
Wagener seems unable to make this distinction. He mistakes Hitler's flights of quasi-history and pseudo science for higher truth. It is a form of mental alchemy that confuses metaphor with fact. Somewhere in the Führer's murky idea of Europe's gene pool, the Volk await a new golden age. But first he must burn away the dross of Bolshevism and Jewry. The verbiage grows wild and the mind bloats. Wagener's unintended legacy is a lesson on how a haunted medieval mind could effectively debase reason in the name of reason. --By R.Z. Sheppard