Word: arabism
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...brink of nuclear war, occurred under the Soviet leadership of the "pragmatic" Khrushchev. Arun Khanna Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Although I admire President Bush's sincere attempt to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq and bring democracy to the Middle East, his policies are doomed to failure. In Arab Muslim states, real democracy is an impossibility. In the Arab world, history has clearly demonstrated that the man with the longest knife will rule. Instead of trying to force democracy where it cannot take root, at a cost of thousands of lives, we should choose our man in the region and make...
...itself, the log doesn't make clear how effective the interrogations were. The Pentagon contends that al-Qahtani has been a valuable source of information: providing details of meetings with bin Laden, naming people and financial contacts in several Arab countries, describing terrorist training camps where bin Laden lives and explaining how he may have escaped from Tora Bora in December...
From London, al-Qahtani made his way to the United Arab Emirates and then to Afghanistan to fight against the U.S. He was captured fleeing Tora Bora in December 2001. When he was shipped to Guantánamo two months later, officials had not yet realized he was the presumed 20th hijacker. For weeks, he refused to give his name. But in July 2002, the feds matched his fingerprints to those of the man who had been deported from Orlando and marked him for intensive interrogation. Al-Qahtani, explains Pentagon spokesman DiRita, was "a particularly well-placed, well-connected terrorist...
...things appear to move slowly after that. It is not clear from the log's terse entries that increased pressure is leading to new disclosures. The interrogators keep juggling techniques--giving extra sleep some days, offering a home-cooked Arab meal on another (al-Qahtani refuses it). Later that day, when a video of the destruction of the Twin Towers is played, al-Qahtani becomes so violent, he has to be restrained. "We can't say, Because we did this, we got that," a senior Pentagon official says. "If we did know what worked, we'd know exactly which pressure...
...Some families have tried to turn back history. Martini's parents are Syrian, her father a doctor who finished his medical degree in the U.S. After 9/11, the Martini family went to the United Arab Emirates. "We weren't welcome here as Muslims," she says. "And my parents wanted my brother and me to experience an Arab culture." The experiment lasted only a year. "It was not as Muslim a country as we thought," says Martini. "There's lots of Western influence. And we missed our relatives here...