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...Even if my own family was killed [by a jihadist's bomb], I would say it's the will of Allah
...group that endorses the goals of Osama bin Laden. Well-spoken, highly intelligent, he says he doesn't know the people arrested last week: "Maybe they have the same ideas as us, but every Muslim would." He says it is contrary to the Koran for British Muslims to bomb in Britain, but foreigners may do so. "It's allowed in Islam. Even if my own family was killed, I would say it's the will of Allah." His is a tiny movement with a gift for self-promotion, but it has material to work with: a recent ICM poll found...
...grisly death of four American civilian security contractors in Fallujah - combined with a roadside bomb that killed five U.S. soldiers nearby - has elicited an unusual degree of hand-wringing back in the U.S. So much so that the White House felt compelled to affirm that the killings would not deter the U.S. from staying the course in Iraq. That the White House felt the need to reiterate that assurance in response to the incident was telling in itself: It may have been the bloodiest day of the past three months, but there have been far bloodier days...
...mighty car bomb last week that lit the sky orange as flames shot from the wreckage of the five-story Mount Lebanon Hotel in downtown Baghdad was the latest evidence of the changing nature of terrorism there too. Though the bombing killed only seven, not 27 as originally reported, its impact was outsized, underscoring the trend toward striking ever softer targets. That included last week's murders of four U.S. missionaries and two European engineers working to rebuild Iraq...
After the Madrid bombing, even the German government, which consistently opposed the Iraq war, came around to this recognition. A senior German official, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, said, "If ... you can plant a big bomb in Europe, cause a government to fall and force a withdrawal of troops, then this would send the wrong signal to terrorists." He added, "That's not in Germany's interests or in Europe's or in Spain's." Winston Churchill put it more concisely: "An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping he will eat him last...