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...Taliban Trouble Re Peter Bergen's article on al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden [July 14]: The U.S. and Europe should not assume that bin Laden is irrelevant or that al-Qaeda is no longer active. It is true that al-Qaeda has not managed to carry out any attacks in the West in the last few years. It is also a fact that al-Qaeda has carried out more than 50 suicide bombings in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda is taking full advantage of the weakness of Pakistan's new government to recruit, train and arm more jihadis. This will boost...
Indeed, just as in past eras when it flourished, the Louvre today is a busy construction site. Most of the work is taking place on a new wing dedicated to Islamic art, set to open in 2010 and partly funded by Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud and French oil giant Total. The Louvre is also building a branch museum in Lens, a depressed former coal-mining town in the north, as part of Loyrette's attempt to broaden its reach within France...
...most dramatically during the Berlin airlift of 1948, endeared a generation of Berliners to the U.S. When Kennedy arrived in Berlin in 1962, the city was gripped by something approaching mass hysteria; Kennedy later confided that had he called on the throng - an estimated 750,000 witnessed his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech at Schoenberg City Hall - to tear down the Wall, they would have done...
...turns out, though, Kennedy and Reagan are remembered today less for the staging that went into their visits than for the power of the words they delivered. The two phrases that resonate - "Ich bin ein Berliner" and "Tear down this wall" - embodied the personalities of both Presidents and their intuitive flair for the moment; in both cases, Kennedy and Reagan personally saw to it that those phrases stayed in their speeches, despite the misgivings of some of their aides. Even more importantly, though, both speeches underscored the U.S.'s unshakable commitment to a free and unified Europe, a resolve that...
...sprawling archipelagoes with dozens of tiny islands, Indonesia and the Philippines sound like ideal hideouts for fugitives. They could stay out of sight for years. Look at how long it has been since anyone saw Osama bin Laden. Wendy Ling, Cairns...