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That "gracious initiative" assures militants that they will be given due process and--provided the families of their victims consent--spared execution in exchange for their surrender and cooperation. The deal was devised to reel in lower-level militants in hopes of isolating their hard-core leaders. It was also...
The paintings are less strident, portraying happy workers and farmers in their socialist paradise or honoring heroes of the Japanese occupation and the Korean (or "Fatherland Liberation") War. Meant to be decorative and edifying, they tend to appear in public buildings, hotels and touring art shows. All the women are...
This is serious material, and you cannot blame serious filmmakers--the movie was written by Jay Cocks (formerly a TIME critic) and directed by Irwin Winkler, producer of some of the best movies (Raging Bull, The Right Stuff) of recent times--for being seduced by it. But something goes terribly...
The brutal execution last week of Paul Johnson Jr., an employee of Lockheed Martin who had been living in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade, was a troubling sign of how freely al-Qaeda continues to operate in the kingdom--and of the deadly threats facing the many foreigners...
The world waited this week for news of another gruesome terrorist execution of an American hostage, and it finally came on Friday, posted on extremist web sites and reported on Arab TV. This time, however, the bad news came not from Iraq, but from Saudi Arabia. Lockheed-Martin engineer Paul...