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...response elsewhere was not so gentle. A gunman murdered the Sikh owner of a Chevron station in Mesa, Ariz. "I am an American," the suspect, Frank Roque, declared upon arrest. A woman went through the phone book and made hateful calls to anyone named Abdul. A Muslim cabdriver in Manhattan kept his license out of view and didn't tell customers his first name--Mohammed--because of the fear he sensed. People asked where he is from when they got into the cab: If they are not familiar with Bangladesh, "I tell them it's in South America. And then...
...away in American communities. Senator Bob Graham of the Intelligence Committee said last week that Sept. 11 was intended to be the first of several days of horror. No one can say how many other terrorist cells may be sleeping near our homes, but Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the attacks, has trained thousands of terrorists. Last week authorities were determined not to let anyone build on the destruction--or escape punishment for it. By week's end, at least 100 people had been arrested in the U.S. in possible connection to the attacks, and 230 more were...
...answer here, because democracy isn't always the harbinger of freedom. The German elections of the early 1930s showed that something as mundane as a split between rival political parties whose combined share of the vote dwarfed that of the Nazis allowed democracy to enable totalitarianism. And many analysts suspect that truly democratic elections in countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan might, indeed, produce Islamist governments hostile to the West...
...long war with many casualties but with an eventual U.S. victory. On the homefront, Americans strong favor increased vigilance. A full 68 percent favor increased governmental wire-tapping authority, 55 percent favor email monitoring. Sixty-one percent would allow the federal government to jail any non-citizen terrorist suspect without a hearing; 59 percent favor holding suspects without bail for unlimited amounts of time. And 31 percent would allow the internment in camps of Arabs who are U.S. citizens...
...Mahfouz is a relative of Khalid bin Mahfouz, a former president of Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank (NCB) who has been accused of trying to wire funds to front organizations for Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the recent terrorist strikes...