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...thing that psyops [Psychological Operations] does and I think everybody fell for it. And not just the American media, but the British media. The newspaper I work for, which is the Guardian - it's a very left-wing paper - was running funny stories about Barney torture. Everybody was. Until Abu Ghraib came along, it was just treated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Who Stare at Goats Author Jon Ronson | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...back on the pavement, occasionally flapping its fins, the fisherman who had caught it when it got stuck in his net a few miles off the coast of the Gaza Strip said he would take it home and eat it. The fisherman, who gave his name only as "Abu Mohamed," admitted that his catch was illegal. Loggerheads are classified internationally as an endangered species. But these days, environmental protection is rarely enforced in Gaza's waters. That's because, according to fishermen and local maritime officials, life has gotten far too desperate to play by the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza's Coast Endangers Wildlife and People | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

...main dock in Gaza city, many of the fishermen call their predicament "an economic war." Abu Mohamed, pulled empty nets from his boat after a fruitless night of fishing. Just hours before, in the early morning, Abu Mohamed's boat had been shot at. "This is terrorism," he said. "Sometimes we feel like we are fighting to fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza's Coast Endangers Wildlife and People | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

...ranking al-Qaeda leader issued a call to the Islamic world to battle a great nation of infidels. Through a video posted on the internet, Abu Yahya al-Libi condemned this superpower for perpetrating "injustice and oppression" against Muslims and "looting their wealth" - a script similar to others read out from secret hideouts over the course of post-9/11 American-led campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. But the country in the crosshairs of al-Qaeda's latest diatribe was not the U.S. or any of its allies in the West. It was China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al Qaeda Leader: China, Enemy to Muslim World | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas official "Obama has a long way to go still and lots of work to do before he can deserve a reward. Obama only made promises and did not contribute any substance to world peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Reaction to Obama Winning the Nobel | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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