By Steven Gutkin Associated Press
An American bomb sent plumes of smoke 1,000 feet into the skies over Afghanistan's front lines in an unusually mighty airstrike. U.S. forces were with the northern opposition and directing fire against the Taliban. The alliance deployed hundreds of troops near Taliban lines north of Kabul, the first tangible sign of preparations for an assault on the capital. The United States acknowledged it had uniformed military personnel in Afghanistan, coordinating airstrikes with the opposition. A senior opposition official said such coordination will increase in coming days and that alliance forces were planning a major offensive to wrest the strategic northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif from the Taliban. It seems the Northern Alliance guys aren't quite up to the standard needed for calling in the strikes, so our guys have to do it.
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(Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said he detected splits among Afghan supporters of the Taliban and would not press Washington to halt bombing during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He expressed concern about popular opposition to a prolonged campaign in Afghanistan, but said the domestic opposition to his decision to back the United States in its attacks on the ruling Taliban had been less than expected. "One has to achieve the objective of the military operation,'' Musharraf said in an interview. Nice of him to come around. A cease-fire for a month would destroy the momentum of the war. It would probably never start up again. It would also give the control to the people who are carping from the sidelines instead of helping.
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By Steven Gutkin Associated Press
U.S. jets pounded Taliban positions in the Balkh region around Mazar-e-Sharif, in strikes that an opposition spokesman called relentless. "They hit very important positions of the Taliban," spokesman Ashraf Nadeem said. Witnesses also said they saw a U.S. plane drop a bomb Tuesday at the Bagram front lines, about 25 miles north of Kabul, creating a mushroom cloud that billowed at least 1,000 feet into the air. Witnesses called it the biggest bomb to hit the area in 10 days of American bombardments on the front lines. See how the Talibs like sitting under those for a few days.
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By Paul Salopek Tribune foreign correspondent
Clandestine telephone calls from civilians trapped in Mazar-e Sharif to Uzbekistan are painting a bleak picture of the war in northern Afghanistan, with callers saying the Taliban not only beat back recent rebel offensives, but are launching brutal reprisals against people accused of sympathizing with the opposition. Afghans have told relatives that five prominent businessmen were hanged on treason charges. Hundreds more have been arrested in surrounding villages. The callers also report that the Taliban regime is beefing up its forces in the region after thwarting attacks by alliance troops two weeks ago. Many of the reinforcements are Arab and Pakistani volunteers.
Taliban soldiers have sent their families to safety, apparently girding themselves to defend the city to the bitter end. They suggest that the battle for Mazar-e Sharif may be long and bloody. U.S. officials have made plain their desire to see the city fall swiftly and have stepped up air strikes to support the ill-equipped Northern Alliance troops. Taking Mazar will open up the supply lines to Russia and the Central Asian republics. One step at a time. It'll make what follows a lot easier.
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PAK News.com
The Taliban is condemning Russia for its support of the Afghan opposition and warned Mascow to stay out of Afghanistan's affairs. Russia "should learn a lesson from the past war, which resulted in the division of the Soviet Union," Taliban spokesman Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi said. "If this time Russia interferes, it will be divided into more parts," Muttaqi said. He accused Russia of plotting with the Afghan opposition to divide Afghanistan. The Taliban didn't beat the Russians. The Soviet Union collapsing behind them did, combined with US Stinger missiles. It was Masood, the man the Taliban had assassinated just before Bin Laden's attack on the US, who held the Soviets off, while the Talibs were sitting in Afghanistan mumbling over their Korans.
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BY JAMES TARANTO WSJ Opinion On-Line Best of the Web Today
The Middle East Media and Research Institute offers the following translation of an article by Ibrahim Nafi, editor of Al-Ahram, an Egyptian government newspaper: "There were several reports that the humanitarian materials have been genetically treated, with the aim of affecting the health of the Afghani people. If this is true, the U.S. is committing a crime against humanity by giving the Afghani people hazardous humanitarian products." Several reports by whom? The mullahs? That must make them true. We know they'd never lie to us.
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The Michigan Daily
From the looks of the advertisement appearing on page 5 of todayâs Daily, students have plenty of opportunities to join the less-than-reputable National Security Agency, the secret group that monitors world-wide communication and has no concept of privacy. The agency will be on campus in the coming weeks recruiting students with specialties in foreign languages, mathematics and computer science. Students should steer clear of the agency while its representatives are in Ann Arbor.
In the 1960s and â70s, University faculty and students were aiding the Central Intelligence Agencyâs campus and international activities... Although the NSA is being quite open about its most recent recruiting campaign, one basic fact remains the same: Universities should be free of manipulation by government agencies. The purpose of higher education is for the intellectual betterment of individuals and society; our university must not cooperate with secretive, anti-democratic forces. Apparently universities should also ensure that their students are walled off from the prospect of getting jobs that might do some good for their country. If you don't want to work for NSA, then don't sign up. The "less-than-reputable" National Security Agency provides intelligence on the kinds of people we're fighting in Afghanistan - you know, the kinds of people who smash airliners full of screaming people into tall buildings and whip women in public for showing an ankle.
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By Michael A. Fletcher Washington Post Staff Writer
"If the climate of worry about the terrorist attacks means there can be no controversy on campus, it is a very unhealthy thing," said Ruth Flower, director of public policy for the American Association of University Professors. "There are some things here that harken back to McCarthyism. But this is different, because it is not the government telling the public what it can and cannot say. This is more a matter of public sentiment dictating behavior." Reasonable people can disagree. That is controversy. When reasonable people agree, as most do at the moment, there is no controversy. Controversy for its own sake is just stupid. This is the same bunch who devised the "speech codes" to combat "hateful and divisive" speech. They say that if you think you're sane but that everyone around you is nutz, you might be wrong.
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Front Page Magazine John Perazzo
In the wake of the unspeakable grief spawned by the September 11 mass murders, this same Louis Farrakhan has seen fit to charge that America has insufficient proof of bin Ladenâs and al-Qaidaâs culpability. "They [American government officials] have lied before," says the Nation of Islam kingpin, "and thereâs no guarantee theyâre not lying now." His next logical leap, of course, was to assert that if bin Laden is not to blame, then our military forces have no legitimate "reason to fight." Presumably neither bin Ladenâs smug assurance that airliners would continue to "rain" down upon American cities, nor his advice that Muslims in the US should avoid airplanes and skyscrapers for the foreseeable future, nor his well-established involvement in past atrocities against our nation, arouse any suspicions in Mr. Farrakhanâs ostensibly fertile mind. For the True Disbeliever, there'll never be enough proof. If Binny's found standing over a slaughtered American with a knife in his hand and blood all over him, people like Farrakhan will say he's been framed.
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AP National
A radical environmental group that is against roundups of wild horses is claiming responsibility for the firebombing of a government barn. No horses were injured in the blaze Oct. 15 at a U.S. Bureau of Land Management corral near Susanville, Cal A communique claiming to be from the Earth Liberation Front was received Monday at the Animal Liberation Front in Canada, ALF spokesman David Barbarash said. He said he has been acting as a spokesman for the ELF.....One firebomb started a blaze that destroyed a barn full of hay, causing $85,000 in damage. Bomb squads disarmed the three other incendiary devices. What's the difference between a domestic terrorist and a foreign terrorist? None, that I can see. These people should be hunted down just as ruthlessly as the WTC bombers.
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BY JAMES TARANTO WSJ Opinion On-Line Best of the Web Today
"I'm not justifying what happened on Sept. 11," the Rev. Grayland Hagler, pastor of Washington's Plymouth Congregational Church, tells the Washington Post. "But it's clear that when Bush said if you're not with us, you're with the terrorist--when he said he wanted the man dead or alive--he was calling out the posse, and black people know the posse. They come by and get you in the middle of the night and kill you without due process." (Kausfiles.com spotted this one.) If you can't see any further than skin color in any situation, regardless of what's happening around you, what's the difference between you and Senator Bilbo?
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By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
THE war is not going well. The Taliban have not yielded ground. Not a single important Taliban leader has been killed, captured or has defected. On the contrary. The Taliban have captured and executed our great Pashtun hope, Abdul Haq. The Joint Chiefs express surprise at the tenacity of the enemy. The war is not going well and it is time to say why.
Thirty years ago in Vietnam, we fought a war finely calibrated to win "hearts and minds." Bomb today, pause tomorrow. That strategy met with nothing but pain and defeat. One of the products of that war was Colin Powell. He and his generation vowed that never again would American lives be sacrificed, their missions compromised, their objectives distorted to satisfy purely political objectives. And yet for three weeks in Afghanistan we held back from massively bombing the Taliban front lines facing the Northern Alliance. Why? Because Pakistan does not like the Northern Alliance. So we calibrate the war to produce a precise ethnic balance, satisfying our various allies, for a post-Taliban Afghanistan. That's an interpretation. It may even be the right one. But it could also be the while the bombing has been going on we've been moving forces into position, setting up liaison with Northern Alliance forces, working politically behind the scenes an any number of other things. Why not let the armed forces do their job? If things are still unmoving in another month or two, maybe you'll have a point.
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BY JAMES TARANTO WSJ Opinion On-Line Best of the Web Today
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who wrote an America-bashing letter to Saudi Prince Alwaleed in hopes of snagging the $10 million donation Rudy Giuliani turned down on principle, pens a whiny op-ed in the Washington Post in which she claims to be the victim of censorship. "I have been attacked for speaking. I am heartened by those who have defended my right to speak."
McKinney wouldn't know free speech if it bit her. In fact, it did. National Review Online's Jonah Goldberg gets it just right: "Criticizing people for saying or writing stupid or wrong things is not a violation of free-speech rights but a celebration of them. Ms. McKinney thinks she's a hero for saying unpopular things. But a bad idea doesn't become a good one simply because it is unpopular." McKinney's utterly lacking in principle and severely deficient in love of country. The only things she has going for her is a safe congressional district, which says little for the collective intellect of the people who live there.
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NY POST, by VINCENT MORRIS and WILLIAM NEUMAN
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says it's too soon after the Sept. 11 terror strikes to put on masks and go trick-or-treating - and he's calling for a nationwide Halloween boycott. In calling for a Halloween hiatus, the civil-rights leader cited the "demonic attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon," the spate of anthrax deaths and infections, and government warnings of another imminent attack. Yeah. I don't like Arbor Day, either, so let's make sure we don't observe it when it rolls around, either. Speaking of April, the Rev. Jackson seems to be partaking in April Fool's Day a bit early.
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD by Stephen Schwartz
For Wahhabis everywhere, the party line is laid down in Riyadh, which simultaneously foments terrorist teaching and disclaims any responsibility for Wahhabi atrocities, exemplified by those of bin Laden. Saudis corrupt Muslims abroad in exactly the way that the Soviet Union once bought the loyalty of foreign intellectuals, labor leaders, and guerrilla fighters, and for the same ends. This worldwide subversion can be combated only as fascist and Communist sedition were once fought: with courage and determination, and in full solidarity with the Muslim heroes in the forefront of resistance to it. There's precious little resistance to it. Non-bloodthirsty Muslim sects like the Sufis and Druzes get rolled over just like everyone else - they're regarded as kafr.
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New York Times, by Neil A. Lewis
Justice Department officials said that the number of people who had been detained in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks had surpassed 1,000, and civil liberties advocates said the government's refusal to disclose the identities of those held and the charges against them raised the possibility of secret detentions. The arrests have been shrouded in confusion and secrecy, with the Justice Department providing a running tally but declining, in most cases, to provide names and details. Justice Department officials said today that they were slowly releasing information about some of the arrests but were prohibited from doing so in some cases and were not required to do so in many others. The further we get from the atrocities of 9-11 the more vocal the "civil liberties" goons will become. That's because This Great Nation has a notoriously short attention span. Mickey Kaus predicted that by November we'd have moved on to another "crisis" - something along the lines of Gary Condit. We aren't all there yet, not even the majority, but part of the herd is starting to move. We need to remind ourselves that those aren't run-of-the-mill muggers and rapists. Some of them are determined potential mass murderers. We'll hear a lot about how it's better for ten guilty to go free if that means one innocent isn't wrongly held - until the ten guilty manage to blow up something important.
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The Washington Post, by Rick Weiss
Federal officials said yesterday that the anthrax spores that infected workers at the New York Post and in the office of Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) were not mixed with bentonite, a mineral compound used by the Iraqi biological weapons program to make the spores more infectious. The chemical findings appeared to support recent hints by various U.S. officials that Iraq is not a prime suspect in the recent anthrax attacks, which have killed three and wreaked havoc with the postal system. But officials said they are still considering all possibilities. This is an investigation that's grinding to a standstill. In a week or two we won't hear much about it and that'll last six months to a year. When they finally pin it on someone it'll all be in the distant past and the guys will get off light.
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Middle East Newsline:
More than 2,000 Iranians were arrested in connection with unrest throughout the country. Iranian authorities have moved to stop the relay of information from opposition groups to the Islamic republic. Authorities have confiscated more than 1,000 satellite dishes as part of an effort to stop access to television channels used by the opposition. The channels are based in the United States. About 150,000 satellite dishes are expected to be confiscated.
Most of the arrests were in Tehran, where the rioters attacked banks, ticket kiosks, public telephones, and traffic signs, as well as police and public vehicles. Police claimed that they seized 5 kilograms of explosives. People of all ages fought against the Basij, using bricks, rocks, and whatever else came to hand. The rioters were chanting anti-government slogans. The tamer slogans included "Freedom, Freedom," "Death to the Basij," and "Only Reza Pahlavi." Iran deposed the Shah and got an usurper. Now the country will have to figure how to get a legitimate government back and the tough guys aren't planning on giving up easily - there's too much money and power (same thing) in it for them. When the Islamic Republic falls there will be a lot of blood in the streets -- and Persia may see its glory days return.
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Holding up photographs of dead children in Afghanistan, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez condemned the deaths of civilians as a result of the allied bombing campaign. "We must find solutions for the problem of terrorism. We must find the terrorists. ... But not like this,'' Chavez said, pointing to a photograph of children and women he said had died or were wounded in the bombing. "Look at these children. These children were alive yesterday. They were eating with their parents and a bomb fell on them,'' Chavez said during a nationally televised address. Chavez reiterated that Venezuela condemns the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against the United States and supports the international fight against terrorism. But he said the struggle should focus on poverty and social discontent that fuels terrorism. Allow us to pause here and figuratively hold up a few pictures of dead Americans, and to tell President Chavez to go to hell.
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Majlis deputy representing Iran's Assyrian and Chaldean community Jonaten Bet Kelia in a statement condemned Sunday's church attack in Bahawalpur, eastern Pakistan. "Terrorism and horror is condemned anywhere. Sunday's attack on a church in Pakistan was viewed with sorrow throughout the world," read the statement. Wonder how long it'll be before he's arrested?
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Robert W. Tracinski http://www.jewishworldreview.com
Islam is the driving force behind every major conflict in the Middle East -- and, by one calculation, it is behind about half of the world's armed conflicts, from Algeria to the Philippines. The latest Palestinian intifada was sparked by incendiary anti-Jewish speeches by Muslim clerics in Palestinian mosques. And when Iranian protesters chant "Death to America," they do it after similar sermons at their own mosques.
The evils of dogmatism and religious tyranny are endemic to Islamic culture -- and our evasion of this fact is making a mockery of the War on Terrorism. Consider the demands to halt the Afghan campaign during the holy month of Ramadan -- an attempt to make our leaders obey the decrees of their Mullahs. Or look at our shameful betrayal of Israel, an open attempt to sacrifice the Jews to appease the religious hatred of the Muslims. And worse, our refusal to recognize Islam as the enemy is preventing us from waging a wider war against all Islamic terrorist states.
If we want to win this war, we must begin by recognizing that it is a war against Islam -- or to be more exact, this is Islamic fundamentalism's war against the "infidel" secularism of the West. Our goal in this war should be to beat down, to curtail, to drive out Islamic fundamentalism -- not to replace it with our own religion, but to force Islam, like the religions of the civilized world, to lay down its arms and accept the freedom of a secular society. If you fight with a skunk, you've got to be prepared to put up with the smell. Islam as a religion is more unlike the Judaeo-Christian tradition than Buddhism or Zoroastrianism. That's not because of the text of the Koran, but because of the underlying Arab culture that gave birth to it. The religion is just an expression of the culture.
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CNN
The leader of Islamic Jihad has said the goal of his and other groups is the "liberation of the Palestinian land with the border of 1967." Ramadan Shallah, speaking to CNN, said his group -- which opposes the existence of Israel -- would be willing to entertain the idea of a cease-fire if "Israelis are ready to pull out from our occupied land, at least the West Bank and Gaza." The remarks signal a shift in what has been the traditional position of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which has opposed any negotiations with Israel and has always claimed that it wanted to recover all of Palestine, including the land that is now Israel. Oh, well. Guess it's a start.
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Haaretz Daily, by Jalal Bana
The police and the Shin Bet security service have, over the past month, arrested a group of Israeli Arabs from Haifa and the Galilee who are suspected of plotting a series of nationalist-religious terror attacks. One of the men who has been detained is the son of Mohammed Saker Hubeishi, the first Arab Israeli suicide bomber. During the course of the investigation, 11 people were taken into custody, but 5 were subsequently released. Three of the suspects have already been charged, while a fourth has been indicted for the murder of a Haifa prostitute. The investigation began immediately after Hubeishi's suicide bomb attack at the Nahariya train station that killed two civilians and a soldier on September 9. It's an essential tenet of guerrilla warfare to divide society into "us" and "them." Hubeishi apparently decided he wasn't part of "them."
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By BETH GARDINER The Associated Press
An Egyptian was charged with providing journalist credentials to suicide bombers who killed the military chief of Afghanistan's opposition alliance. Yasser el-Sirri, 39, was the first person charged in connection with the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massood. Two men posing as journalists -- allegedly using a letter of accreditation el-Sirri gave them -- detonated a bomb hidden in their camera while they interviewed Massood in his northern Afghanistan headquarters on Sept. 9. Massood was fatally wounded and both of the bombers were killed. In an interview with an Arabic newspaper before his arrest, el-Sirri said he wrote the letter but thought the men were legitimate journalists. What the hell, it's not as though he was a fellow Muslim or anything. Besides, what'd he ever do for his country? It's not like he was a hero.
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Palestinians aligned with Yasser Arafat have launched an assassination campaign against Israeli military commanders. The Fatah movement led by Arafat has joined with the Islamic opposition to target senior Israeli military officers. They said the effort is being aided by Israeli Arabs. A bomb was found outside the home of a senior naval officer. Nobody was injured. Hours later, the Fatah dominated Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the bomb.
Meanwhile, PA security officers have held for questioning several Islamic militants in the Gaza Strip. The militants were identified as members of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad and connected to attacks against Israel. Oh, gosh! Please don't start a "cycle of violence." Howcome we have to be afraid of starting a cycle of violence and Arabs don't?
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By Randa Habib Agence France-Presse, in Jordan Times
King Abdullah warned that an attack on an Arab country as part of the US-led campaign against terrorism would amount to a âgreat catastrophe.â The King also said the church massacre in Pakistan underscored world concern that âOsama Ben Ladensâ around the world are trying to pit East against West.
Arabs and Muslims are not responsible for the deadly Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, King Abdullah repeatedly stressed. âWe have explained to the coalition the great catastrophe if an Arab country is hit,â the King said, asked about the possibility of an Arab country, notably Iraq, being attacked. Of course, if they do nothing but sit on their hands and criticize from the sidelines, we couldn't possibly suspect that they approve of the Bad Guys and maybe even support them. Could we?
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Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal
Crown Prince Abdullah has now admitted what everyone else has been thinking, which is that the U.S.-Saudi relationship is "at a crossroads." The Saudi ruler wrote to President Bush in August that "a time comes when peoples and nations part" and that "it is time for the U.S. and Saudi Arabia to look at their separate interests. Those governments that don't feel the pulse of the people and respond to it will suffer the fate of the Shah of Iran." It's time the U.S. took the Prince up on his offer. For the strains of the war on terrorism are revealing that the long-standing U.S.-Saudi bargain can't hold. In return for oil and the occasional pro-American vote at the United Nations, Washington has looked the other way at Saudi Arabia's precarious politics. You finally caught that part about being part of the solution or part of the problem, did you? Well, you were given the choice. Sadly, we will go our separate ways, we into war against terrorism, you into the dustbin of history.
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The former home office minister Ann Widdecombe has said that British citizens who travel to Afghanistan to fight alongside Taleban forces should be charged with treason. Miss Widdecombe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Any British citizen who fights against British forces, in my view, has committed treason and certainly, if they come back to this country, they shouldn't imagine that they can then just enjoy the democratic freedoms and rights of a free society, when they have fought against it."
However, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Simon Hughes said on the same programme that action was needed to tackle the conditions that led to British Muslims being keen to fight on the Taleban's behalf. Perhaps the action which should be taken consists of shutting down Islamic schools and monitoring the activities of the mosques. There's a difference between religion and subversion, and societies have the right to protect themselves by deporting foreigners who attempt to subvert them. People like Mr. Hughes find it ever so much easier to give people money than to actually stand up and tell them not to do something, even if the something is cutting his throat. Ms Widdecombe appears to have a much more distinct set of testicles than he does.
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Express India
Saudi Arabia will tell its citizens to quit the United States if harassment against them continues, the Interior Minister was quoted as saying. "The Kingdom is working to put an end to this matter (harassment), and we hope it will end," Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said. "But if it continues, we would certainly tell our citizens to come home, or search for another place. But we hope it won't continue," he said. Scores of Saudi students, hospital patients and worker who returned to the Kingdom following the terror attacks have spoken of harassment, maltreatment and humiliation from both the US authorities and the public. The Interior Ministry meanwhile set up a hotline to answer queries from families of Saudis detained in United States. Prince Nayef also denied that Riyadh has arrested people linked to the terror attacks on New York and Washington. "The wicked flee when no man pursueth." Of course, it would be purely coincidental if all terrorist activity in the USA stopped when all the Arabians were out of the country.
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BY JAMES TARANTO WSJ Opinion On-Line Best of the Web Today
Geoff Hoon, the British defense secretary, says a pause in the bombing for Ramadan "is something we are looking at very seriously." His American counterpart, Donald Rumsfeld, gets it right, noting that the Taliban and al Qaeda "are unlikely to take holiday." Rumsfeld adds: "Given the fact that they have killed thousands of Americans and people from 50 or 60 other countries, and given the fact that they have sworn to continue such attacks, we have an obligation to defend the American people." He also notes that "there have been any number of conflicts between Muslim countries, and between Muslim countries and non-Muslim countries, throughout Ramadan."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
