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...instant before it happened, one camera's eye caught a tableau that might serve as the late 20th century's most succinct text on the metaphysics of terrorism. There, on a mellow May afternoon at St. Peter's Square, beneath the encircling Bernini columns, the most vigorously gregarious of Popes rides slowly through a sea of tourists and pilgrims. It is a rite of sweet human communion. The Pope reaches out for babies in the crowd. He gently blesses the faces that give back a radiant daze of whatever it is that they see in the man--celebrity, charisma, holiness...
...roughly 500 detainees held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, none is more notorious than Mohammad al-Qahtani, the so-called "20th hijacker." Only weeks before 9/11, he tried to enter the U.S. illegally in Orlando, Fla., while the plot's leader, Mohammad Atta, waited to pick him up in the airport parking lot. As the Pentagon has said, "Had al-Qahtani succeeded in entering the U.S., it is believed he would have been on United Airlines Flight 93, the only hijacked aircraft that had four hijackers instead of five [and the one that ended up crashing...
Read the Complete Interrogation Log: From the TIME Archive Jun 20, 2005 Inside the Interrogation of Detainee 063To get the "20th hijacker" to talk, the U.S. used a wide range of tactics...
Read the Complete Interrogation Log: From the TIME Archive Jun 20, 2005 Inside the Interrogation of Detainee 063To get the "20th hijacker" to talk, the U.S. used a wide range of tactics...
...than a century ago, was twofold: that the Games would encourage the youth of the world to compete in sports, rather than fight in war, and that the Games would bring the nations of the world closer together, to achieve a greater mutual understanding. Unfortunately, for much of the 20th century, the first part didn’t work out so well—the Games were cancelled during both world wars—and neither did the second—Olympic boycotts have been a common diplomatic device. But the Olympics’ successes—Jesse Owens?...