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...wondrous multiplicity, can crash airliners into skyscrapers because, in his heart, Khan is one of them. Yet Khan doesn't fit the profile of a typical Muslim terrorist. He's not a vengeful Palestinian youth whose brother was gunned down by Israelis for chucking a stone at a tank. Nor does he fit our stereotype of the suicide killer as a loner, an easily brainwashed misfit...
...girls even have celebrity apparel adorning the walls of their ecclectic abode. This summer, while interning for Tiger Beat magazine, Tanenhaus snatched Jessica Simpsons tank top and Christina Aguilleras red-silk rhinestone bra (she reports it is extremely padded...
Afghanistan is literally the world's largest minefield - there are some 10 million anti-personnel and anti-tank mines hidden there, which maim or kill more than 20 Afghans a day. And President Bush's stirring speech on Thursday suggests that the administration's campaign to eliminate the Bin Laden terror scourge involves navigating a figurative minefield every bit as dangerous...
...controlled village of Radusa, just over the hill from the border with Kosovo. With most of the civilians gone, a pair of donkeys had taken refuge from the sun in the partially destroyed mosque. The local N.L.A. commander, code-named Mesusi, posed in front of a captured T-55 tank to say he had already begun discussing the modalities of disarmament with British troops. "We're going to hand in all 140 of our guns," he said, as well as the two tanks and one armored personnel carrier captured in fighting with Macedonian security forces in early August. Following...
...originates in 1967, when it occupied the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights in order to expand its own defensive perimeter after having vanquished the armies of Jordan, Egypt and Syria in six days. Such expansion of Israel's defense perimeter was considered essential in that era of tank warfare, but it also meant subjecting some 3 million Palestinians, many of them already refugees, to direct Israeli military rule. From the outset the occupation created a dilemma for Israeli democracy. Annexing the West Bank and Gaza would force Israel to grant the Palestinian population the rights of citizenship, putting...