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...fact, since Musharraf took over the country in a bloodless coup in 1999, he has wanted to crack down on the country's extremist religious groups, which often feed people into militant organizations, including those fighting for Kashmir. It's not a task for the fainthearted. Three weeks ago, the brother of Pakistan Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider was gunned down in the port city of Karachi because, police believe, Haider was outspoken against fanatical religious groups...
...fact, since Musharraf took over the country in a bloodless coup in 1999, he has wanted to crack down on the country's extremist religious groups, which often feed people into militant organizations, including those fighting for Kashmir. It's not a task for the fainthearted. Three weeks ago, the brother of Pakistan Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider was gunned down in the port city of Karachi because, police believe, Haider was outspoken against fanatical religious groups...
...Each of those deaths carried an impact, but none were traceable back to the enemy. Has three months of largely bloodless battles left Americans at home ill-equipped to deal with the oddly foreign specter of hostile fire casualties? Will Friday's shooting change the way Americans view the war against terrorism...
...banks to safeguard money for terrorists. Given the centrality of the U.S. financial system in the world economy, no nation could easily survive being told that it could not clear its transactions in American banks. "We can eliminate them from our financial map," says Intriago. "It's the ultimate bloodless weapon, as lethal as anything we drop on Afghanistan...
...argue again--the "music of democracy," one House member mused last week. It was almost a relief to watch lawmakers who used to loathe one another make common cause in their loathing of John Ashcroft's antiterrorism bill. Did anyone actually mourn the death of bipartisanship? It was a bloodless phantom anyway: all lawmakers love their country and would do anything to defend it, and that includes doing their jobs, which is to disagree over how best to do this. Scholars argue over whether it is their job to try to understand the enemies' motives, or whether the effort reeks...