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...story reads like the plot of a James Bond movie, but has the potential to end in the silliness of an Austin Powers flick...
...There would certainly be no shortage of suspects in the slaying of a man whose grip on power depended on the nimble manipulation of ethnic, political and regional rivalries. But early speculation is that the assassination plot may have originated in his own military, grown weary of his endless exhortations to fight on in a civil war that has drawn in six neighboring states and been likened to World War I. Some reports suggest that the shooting occurred as a group of generals confronted Kabila after he'd reportedly tried to sack them. Many observers believe the prospects for ending...
Carroll's book, however, is not just a polemic; his literary gifts enable him to produce a coherent narrative studded with arresting cameos and acute analysis. His plot, highly simplified, runs as follows: Jesus' first mourners, who considered themselves Jewish, engaged in earnest critiques of their faith; but the authors of the Gospels, by then feuding with the Jews, calcified those critiques as slanders. Constantine's use of Christianity to unify his far-flung empire effectively declared open season on all nonbelievers. Church fathers (by now influential Romans themselves) assigned the villain's role in the Crucifixion to the Jews...
...Plot has never been the sharpest arrow in [the author's] quiver, and [this book] holds true to form. It might, like...earlier works, be called a novel of ideas, but that is too bloodless a description... [The writer] portrays people with ideas--sometimes good, sometimes wacky--bumping into one another and sparking unpredictable reactions...
...event falls on Dec. 23 and is thought by FBI analysts to be of particular significance to radical Jihadists such as OSAMA BIN LADEN. According to one FBI official, as many as three aborted terrorist events may have been intended for around that night last Ramadan, including an alleged plot to bomb U.S.S. The Sullivans when it refueled in Aden on Jan. 3, 2000. Increasing the worry this year is the flurry of preparations for the impending Inauguration of George W. Bush, the son of the man who waged the Persian Gulf War. The FBI's crisis command center...