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...world has become a terrifying place, but sometimes the terror is purely accidental. Although a Russian chartered airliner that crashed in the Black Sea Thursday with 77 people aboard appears to have been brought down by an explosion, early reports of possible terrorist involvement may have been premature...
...only to discover that its 'hijacking' was a hoax, it's hardly surprising that the Black Sea air disaster raised fears of terrorism. After all, the flight originated in Israel and most of its passengers were Israeli. The crew of a nearby Armenian Airlines plane reported seeing an explosion aboard the doomed plane, before it spun down into the sea. And Russian and Ukrainian media have been reporting for some time that ethnic Tatar villages in the Crimea had been giving shelter to rebel fighters from Chechnya, and that some Tatar Islamists had even volunteered to fight in Chechnya. Russia...
...only are we suddenly confronted with the very real possibility of traffic tie-ups without fistfights, other signs of patience abound as well. Last week, for example, my commuter train was leaving Grand Central at about 7 p.m. It had been, for all aboard - and there were more of us than usual, since the traffic tie-ups and, more significantly, the Mayor?s ban on cars carrying only one passenger, had enticed some suburbanites into leaving their cars at home - a long day at the office. The train chugged desultorily through the darkness of Grand Central, then stalled; it didn...
...that's got a diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over." (He later apologized.) On that same day, the pilot of a Delta flight in Texas had a Pakistani American removed before takeoff because he said his crew did not feel comfortable with the man aboard. Delta offered him a new ticket--on another carrier. (It later apologized.) In Lincoln, R.I., someone hit a pregnant woman wearing a hijab (head scarf) with a stone. She has been calling midwives to avoid giving birth in the hospital because "I don't want to go to any public...
...ability to wage terrifying war on Afghanistan. There are already several hundred American warplanes in the region, based in Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and aboard two aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Carl Vinson and the U.S.S. Enterprise. Washington wants to conduct the air war from a new command center just outside Riyadh, but the Saudis are balking. (If the past is any guide, the U.S. will eventually get its way.) Another pair of carriers, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, could be ready to attack within a week. The Pentagon and the State Department have arranged for basing...