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Abhorrent as such images might seem, the story behind them is even more wrenching. Aired on a TV channel run by the Islamic militants of Hamas, the two-minute re-enactment was based on the life of Reem Riyashi, 22, a Palestinian mother of two who blew herself up in a suicide attack against Israeli soldiers at a Gaza border crossing in January 2004. Riyashi is hailed as a courageous resistance fighter among Palestinians throughout Gaza and the West Bank, but the truth about what drove her to such a terrible act is much more complex. Palestinians in Gaza...
...they do it? In October 2003, a glamorous, well-to-do 29-year-old lawyer named Hanadi Jaradat calmly walked into a restaurant in Haifa and blew herself up, killing 21 Israelis and wounding 48 others. In her case, revenge was the motive: Israeli soldiers had raided her home, killing her brother and fiancé, both militants, as she helplessly watched. Several Palestinian intellectuals interviewed for this article declined to publicly challenge the accepted version that women are driven to become suicide bombers out of a desire to avenge Palestinian suffering at the hands of the Israelis. But that...
...penalty kicks were taken, the Kop responded with a song recalled the 'pool's famous comeback vcitory over AC Milan in Istanbul two years ago; it exploded in cheers when Bolo Zenden netted the first spot kick. Then, Robben stepped up to reply, the hurricane of howling commenced and blew Robben and Chelsea away...
...April 1983 an Iranian surrogate group blew up the American embassy in Beirut. Forensic investigators sifting through the rubble determined with a fair amount of certainty that the bomb maker had inserted explosives inside the firing chain, ensuring a "signature" was not left to tie the attack to Iran. Iran never claimed the attack, the suicide bomber was never named, and if it weren't for a still classified lucky break, we would have had no evidence the Iranians were behind it. It is unlikely in the intervening years Iran lost its touch. It certainly isn't clumsy enough...
...four games of the Ivy League season last year, the Crimson entered the series with a slim two-game lead over the Big Green in the Red Rolfe Division. After Dartmouth took two out of the first three contests and was within one victory of forcing a tiebreaker, Harvard blew the Big Green out 23-9 in the final to tie the series and secure the Rolfe title.This time around, the annual home-and-away four-game set will have a different feel, as the Big Green (6-25-1, 3-13 Ivy) enters the weekend at the back...