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...front to radicalize young men. Though locals claimed not to have noticed anything unusual, all three men, in hindsight, had shown proclivities for radical Islam. Khan is said to have traveled regularly to Pakistan and Afghanistan for military training, according to a friend who spoke to the bbc After he got into some fights at his racially divided school, Hussain went to Mecca on a pilgrimage with his father, who then sent him to study in Pakistan, hoping he would gain discipline. When Hussain returned to Leeds, he grew a beard and began dressing in traditional Muslim clothes. Tanweer visited...
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...bedridden hero of Dennis Potter's superb 1986 BBC mini-series shares the name (minus an e) of a top private eye and applies his own daft deductive powers to solving the mystery of his own sad life. Michael Gambon is laceratingly magnificent...
...tent-like structure, young women surrounded by their shopping bags smoke hookah pipes. At this most superficial of levels, the commercial complex is able to combine Islamic and Western elements without any of the problems which crease the brows of the country’s politicians. Appearing on the BBC, Tony Blair, the British prime minister, and Jack Straw, the foreign minister, anxiously stress that the attacks are condemned by the many ordinary, decent Muslims who inhabit the country. In the same vein, the London newspapers profile a young Muslim Londoner who is believed to have died in the attacks?...
Sources: Washington Post; New York Times (3); Washington Post (2); AP; BBC News...