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...inflicting the pain sometimes includes all of Christendom. They list the U.S. sanctions against Syria, Libya, Iran and Sudan--all Muslim countries (and all, not coincidentally, considered by the State Department to be sponsors of terrorism). They list the U.S. missile strikes in 1998 on a bin Laden camp in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan (Washington originally claimed the plant was making chemical weapons but has quietly backed off the charge). They believe Western powers tolerated for too long--from 1992 until the NATO bombings in 1995--the ethnic cleansing by Christian Serbs of Bosnian Muslims...
...same: "Our obligation is to treat this subject with realism and intelligence and as much insight as we can." Alias creator J.J. Abrams says he's made one change, but The Agency is completely discarding its original pilot, which dealt with terrorism and Middle East intrigue and mentioned Osama bin Laden. "Slowly, we will get back to the reality of CIA life, and that means dealing with terrorism," says an executive producer, Wolfgang Petersen, "but not right...
Some art will risk offense to stay relevant. In December playwright Tony Kushner opens Homebody/Kabul, set in Afghanistan in 1998, the year of American air strikes in response to bin Laden's U.S. embassy bombings in Africa. Despite the now incendiary subject, Kushner says he "wouldn't change a thing" in the script. "Even a country at war has a moral imperative to think about the people with whom they are fighting and ask questions about them," he says. All of us are likely to crave escape in the months ahead. But we should be afraid to live...
...Osama bin Laden, you are a coward. It amazes me that you thought you could destroy the U.S., but bullies like you will never take down this great nation. Your hope was to cripple us, but we have become more united. We hold our heads high, and we are proud. The world has rallied around the U.S. to destroy terrorism and all it represents because, ultimately, Americans are peacemakers. It is time we ended your reign of terror. BRENDA SEGNA Billings, Mont...
...suspected terrorist ringleader Osama bin Laden...