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Critics of Bush's F.D.R.-style military tribunals grandly point to the model of the stately Nuremberg trials. But the analogy is absurd. Nuremberg occurred after Nazism had been beaten, broken, banished to oblivion. Nuremberg marked the closing of a bankrupt account. It was less a trial than a form of documentation of crimes the world had known little about. The crimes of Sept. 11 hardly need publicizing. Moreover, radical Islamic terrorism is by no means dead, even after a major defeat in Afghanistan and even if Osama is captured. What sane nation gives the enemy a megaphone...
...Alex Perry was one of the first journalists to enter Mazar-i-Sharif after it fell to the Northern Alliance. There he met Ustad Mohammed Atta, a general who helped drive out the Taliban, and learned of the bloody aftermath of the city's fall. Read Alex's account at time.com/perry...
...Tales of treachery and travail at Kunduz dominated world headlines late in the week, and Britain's Guardian provided a riveting account of the bizarre negotiations over a Taliban surrender there. According to reporter Luke Harding, the talks between Northern Alliance general Rashid Dostum and Taliban commander Mullah Faizal were held in Dostum's castle near Mazar-i-Sharif, with three uniformed U.S. special forces officers in attendance. "Over cups of tea and biscuits, the terms of the surrender were agreed: all the Afghan fighters trapped in Kunduz would be allowed to go home. The Arabs, however, would be taken...
...differentials between the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities grades are hard to account for except as reflecting standards varying by division, which would not seem to be healthy or fair to students,” Lewis wrote in an e-mail...
...sarin gas with their umbrella tips, leaving 12 people dead and thousands injured. Only two months before, more than 5,000 people were killed by an earthquake that shook the western port city of Kobe. "Some strange malaise, some bitter aftertaste lingers on," writes novelist Haruki Murakami in his account of the times, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. "We crane our necks and look around us, as if to ask: where did all that come from...