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...Look, we have enemies," Karzai said. "The same enemies that blew up themselves in London, the same enemies that blew up the train in Madrid or the train in Bombay or the twin towers in America are still around. Before September 11 they were the government in Afghanistan. Today they are on the run and hiding and they come out from their hiding and try to hurt us when they can manage...
...almost every clip you'll see little puffs of dust spurting out from the sides of the towers. There are two competing explanations for these puffs of dust: 1) the force of the collapsing upper floors raised the air pressure in the lower ones so dramatically that it actually blew out the windows. And 2) the towers did not collapse from the impact of two Boeing 767s and the ensuing fires. They were destroyed in a planned, controlled demolition. The dust puffs you see on film are the detonations of explosives planted there before the attacks...
...clubs, the Mardi Gras Indian bands and brass bands that played at jazz funerals, have been scattered. Even before Katrina, New Orleans music was in danger as venerable nightspots in the French Quarter were replaced by tourist bars. Music was touted, "Disneyfied," Butler said, but not supported, and Katrina blew apart the social fabric that kept the traditions alive. Michael White, a clarinetist and musical historian at Xavier University, said it was shameful that so many valuable musical collections, like his own, were in private homes and never given pride of place in the city...
...about the acts of barbarism occurring every day in the Middle East, it’s easy to pass judgment on a violent foreign culture. We’ve conveniently forgotten how our own country was preserved.Back in the American 1860s, two irreconcilable factions shot at each other and blew each other up until one faction managed to conquer the other.Brutal violence, occupation, and submission kept the United States together, not some diplomatic solution. If Iraq follows our example, fighting will continue until one group subdues the rest. If they resolve their conflicts peacefully, they will have accomplished something...
...last week. July has been worse, with a series of Sunni-vs.-Shi'ite assaults that have each left dozens dead. One of the bloodiest: 53 people died in Kufa last week when a man in a van enticed Shi'ite day laborers with the promise of work, then blew up his vehicle as they approached...