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These are fertile times for al Qaeda-ologists as they try to sort out what to make of separate messages coming from Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi all in one week. An excerpt from the NYT story: The broadcasts last week by three of the world's best-known terrorist leaders shared at least [...]
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A look at the impact of YouTube, a five-month-old site where you can post your videos. Some people hope it'll be their ticket to fame. For some, it actually is. An excerpt: The closest Terry Turner comes to Washington politics is his job as a bureaucrat at the Pentagon — until, that is, he fires [...]
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The Washington Post profiles Nabil Khatib, executive editor of Al-Arabiya, the, uh, other major Arabic-language satellite TV news network. An excerpt: From the clusters of plasma screens that adorn the red-tinted walls of al-Arabiya, one of the Arab world's most influential news channels, the battles of the Middle East aired on an hourly bulletin: more [...]
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Whaddaya think: Psychological or social profile? Is your terrorist an entrepreneur, protege, misfit or drifter? None of those? Maybe he's a convert. More on all this at this April 29 BBC story. Here's the conclusion: … Chief Inspector Mick Gillick of West Midlands police, who works with Muslim and other communities in his patch, said [...]
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Edward Caraballo, arrested in 2004 as part of a bizarre scheme to run a private jail in Afghanistan, is now free to go about his business. The 44-year-old American described his mood as “jubilant” and “happy.” I would think after two years in the Afghan can, that would make him a master of understatement. :) An excerpt from [...]