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...mask A gun or firearm Neither Not sure...
...Latino students are disproportionately affected by "zero tolerance" policies in schools, reports "Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in Our Schools" by William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and Rick Ayers (New Press; paperback original; December 1). Kirkus is listening. "?Zero tolerance? initially meant that any student bringing a gun to school would be expelled for up to two years. In many schools, however, the policy has come to cover not only realistic replicas of firearms and knives, but objects that, but virtue of their shape and design, could cause any physical harm, or even give the appearance of being able...
...Islam and, as he sees it, America and Israel are the two greatest obstacles to its resurgence. Khan is wealthy by Pakistani standards, but his house is austere; there are no pictures on the wall or homey flourishes. His one vanity, if you could call it that, is his gun collection from the Afghan war, trophies he took off dead Russians. Khan fought in the Al-Badr battalion, made up primarily of Arabs who took the jihad - or holy war - back with them to Algeria, Egypt and Sudan. Their experiences in the Afghan conflict color the way many Muslims...
...Pakistani in his mid-20s, Abu Zaid (his nom de guerre), gave up a chance to study medicine in the U.S. to the dismay of his parents. Instead, he enrolled in an Islamic militant training camp in the mountains northeast of Islamabad. There he learned how to handle a gun and explosives instead of a stethoscope. "We are not fanatics," he insists in a soft, earnest voice, "but we believe it's better to sacrifice ourselves than live in an unjust world." But where is the justice in indiscriminately killing thousands of office workers, firefighters and airline passengers - Christians, Jews...
...ones who become suicide pilots," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. "The ones who don't - the ones responding to promises of money, and support for their families, or the ones simply acting out of hate - they end up with the grunt work of logistics, criminal activity, gun-running. Eventually, they'll burn out. When they do, they'll be valuable to intelligence people - if they're picked up." Identifying those people will be the prime test for U.S. intelligence forces in the years to come...