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Someone, maybe Atta, was meticulously casing the airport, checking plane schedules, looking for half-empty flights, testing security measures. He and his accomplices obviously learned a great deal about airline schedules, aircraft capabilities and fuel loads, perhaps even seat configurations. The car was found there again Tuesday night, containing a...
After so many years of war, Kabul, formerly a cosmopolitan capital, has become a city of grinding poverty, distrust and fear under the watchful eyes of the Taliban and its heavy-handed religious police. Residents have learned to live alongside an array of the Taliban's so-called foreign guests...
Two millennia ago, a wise man counseled us to love those who hate us. He had a way of making difficult requests. But he knew something we ought all to have learned now: that the cost of hatred is hell on earth. And he had an idea for how effectively...
Dar-ul-uloom is a product of the Indian mutiny of 1857, a watershed for India's Muslims. After Britain's victory ended the Muslim dominance of the subcontinent, the school became the center of a forward-looking movement that sought to reform and unite Muslim society in a country...
A full-scale invasion and occupation of a country such as Afghanistan would likely result in the activation or reserves, certainly. But remember -drafted soldiers take 6 months to train properly, and at this point no one is imagining a protracted large-scale conflict on the order of WWII or...