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...personal profiles of some of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks suggests that it is not only impoverished and impressionable youths from these countries who are joining Bin Laden, but even elements of the technologically-savvy middle class who benefit most from globalization and whose visits to strip bars ahead of their kamikaze mission suggests they may not even be quite as devout as your average Taliban fighter...
What's the deal with the Pink Pony Nude Theatre? According to press reports, a couple of the hijackers spent time at this Florida strip club. They drank vodka and orange juice while enjoying the show. So were these guys really religious zealots? Apparently their love of the Koran allowed them to overlook its prohibitions on drinking and cavorting with women. (Of course, they also overlooked the Koran's prohibitions on shedding innocent blood, a point rightly made by Muslims around the globe who have swiftly denounced the attack.) The Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel reported that one of the hijackers...
...what gives? No one can explain the minds of people who get up in the morning knowing that they're going to kill thousands. But if they were hanging in Florida strip clubs it raises some questions. Maybe Bin Laden's reach extends beyond religious zealots or even those posing as religious zealots to those who are not religious in any traditional sense. Maybe this means that Bin Laden has joined forced with secular terrorists like the kind we saw in the 70s, hijackers who didn't invoke the Koran or the name of God but used the leftist rhetoric...
...pull that off. They get a lot of flack for saying tennis isn't the only thing in their life--for planning for their next careers by spending autumns learning how to dart dresses in the same class at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., fashion college next to a strip mall--but that may be the only thing that gets them through a sibling rivalry that could otherwise make Cain and Abel seem like Waltons...
...language, that dominates the Chinese-speaking world. Cantopop stars are mobbed in Beijing and Taipei, in London and Las Vegas. Last Christmas, veteran mesmerizer Leslie Cheung gave a sold-out concert at Caesars Palace, where tickets went for $80 and $238. The same night, half a mile down the Strip, Jackie Chan--yes, he's also a singer--led an all-star music revue that packed the 17,000-seat Garden at the MGM Grand at a top price...