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When Yasmin K. Bin-Human ’03 forwarded an advertisement for the exhibit to the Eliot House e-mail list, several students turned the discussion from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s effect on children to the conflict itself...
More than 30 replies flooded the list in response to Bin-Human’s message. While some criticized the validity of accounts about the killing of Al-Dura, others asked for unbiased book recommendations on the Middle East conflict...
...ethnic Tajiks of the Northern Alliance. And that has prompted the Taliban and al-Qaeda to exploit Pashtun resentment in an effort to create a favorable climate for a new guerrilla war against the U.S. and its allies. Reports from the area cite mass distribution of pro-bin Laden pamphlets in the region, urging Afghans to fight the government in Kabul and its U.S. backers. And local warlord rivalries appear to have played a role in determining which warlords sent their troops to fight alongside the Americans at Shah...
...There was no time this impulse to aggrandize the bad was more evident than on September 11, when Osama bin Laden was instantly and predictably elevated into the brotherhood of the brilliantly wicked. Look! the commentators said. See how he got our attention with the first plane so the world would be watching when the second one hit? (As if two planes taking off at different times and flying different routes could have struck the buildings at precisely the same moment even if the amateur pilots at the stick had wanted them to.) Beware! the news people warned...
...says Afghan commander Abdul Mateen Hassan Khel, sitting in an office in the provincial capital of Gardez, with 40 Russian tanks rusting outside his window. "Pockets of al-Qaeda from Jalalabad and other places were able to move in with them, so many are there now." Whether or not bin Laden and his top lieutenants are in the region, the known commanders are ripe enough targets. They include Ibrahim Haqqani, whose brother, a Taliban leader sought by the U.S., is thought to be hiding in Pakistan; Latif Mansour, the former Taliban Minister for Agriculture; and Saifur Rahman Mansoor, Latif...