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...more than 35,000 closed-circuit-television tapes and more than 5,000 leads phoned in by the public on the antiterrorist hot line--police have asked people to program the number into their cell phones--investigators don't have a clear understanding of the dimensions of the twin terrorist plots. British and U.S. officials told TIME that police have not found any forensic link between the July 7 and July 21 bombers--no phone calls, documents or other evidence tying the two groups together. Contrary to earlier speculation, the bombs used on July 7 and July 21 came from...
...terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, orchestrated by Saudi native Osama bin Laden and carried out by 15 Saudi militants, ensured that Fahd would go down in history as the Saudi ruler who turned a blind eye to growing Islamic extremism. To protect the regime from spreading Islamic revolution following Ayatullah Khomeini's overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Fahd gave the Kingdom's ultra conservative Islamic establishment the green light to promote an ever rigid Wahhabi form of Islam so long as it continued to recognize the legitimacy of the House of Saud as Saudi Arabia's political leadership...
...special report on the terrorist attacks in London and the hunt for the bombers drew mail from readers expressing sympathy and solidarity with the British as well as anger against Muslim radicals. Others debated whether the war in Iraq has contributed to the global climate of jihadist hatred...
...Viewpoint claiming that the Iraq war has not increased Muslim resentment of the U.S. [July 18], Charles Krauthammer stated that the U.S. will be blamed "whenever there is a terrorist attack anywhere in the world." It is true enough that the extreme radicals of al-Qaeda will always find some excuse to attack the U.S. and its allies. That does not mean we should give terrorists additional excuses to do so. Rather than fostering democracy, our belligerent invasion of Iraq has destabilized the region and convinced many Muslims that the terrorists' depiction of us is true...
...something with this idea of turning consumers into media programmers, so are a lot of other people. Korea's Ohmynews boasts a stable of 38,000 "citizen journalists." Pictures and video from bystanders' cell phones played a starring role in the mainstream media coverage of the terrorist bombings in London. There are already 70 million blogs around the world, 500 video logs, up to 10,000 podcasts...