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...military installations. Visitors to al-Qaeda camps say that students receive instruction not only in using intricate maps of U.S. cities and targeted venues but also in employing scale models of potential sites for strikes. A 180-page al-Qaeda manual offers advice to "sleepers" (agents sent overseas to await missions) on how to be inconspicuous: shave your beard, wear cologne, move to newly developed neighborhoods where residents don't know one another...
...most chilling detail of the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut is that in his last seconds the suicide bomber was smiling. Bassamat al-farah, it is called. The smile of joy. Suicide bombers are taught that they are guaranteed immediate admission to paradise, where 72 black-eyed virgins await their pleasure...
...forgotten him: Restless grumbling was the order of the day at the recent Madison Square Garden concerts despite the performance/presence of a pantheon of musical and cinematic superstars. Only one performer could bring the masses to the heights of screaming frenzy—Michael Jackson. Further success appears to await him in the wings; one Associated Press headline about the event read: “Michael Jackson Erases All Doubts.” More than that, Michael Jackson has proven that he is still loved. And perhaps that more than anything else is the most important thing...
Many Afghans refuse to keep quiet. In a cramped studio off a busy thoroughfare in Peshawar, a few musicians sitting on faded red carpets take up instruments while they await customers. On the walls are photos of the band's performances. Zar Wali smiles broadly as he begins to play the harmonium. "My beloved country," he sings in his native Pashto, "this Afghanistan, is very dear to me." The anthem is sweet--sweet enough to make him briefly forget that he is in Pakistan...
Nearly 50 reporters crowded into the lushly carpeted Grand Ballroom of the nearby Hyatt—turned into a media center—to await statements from Massport officials, trading notes and speculation as television reports played in the background...