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From day one, my trip to Russia was marked by tragedy. As I left my home in Los Angeles, I got word that two Russian planes had exploded simultaneously on their way to Black Sea resorts. Chechen terrorists were the likely suspects. Six days later, a car bomb destroyed the entrance to a Moscow subway station—on the same line I had taken the day before. The day I arrived in St. Petersburg, a band of terrorists took over a middle school in Beslan, a small southern town. And by the time I left the country, 360 children...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, | Title: The Dual Tragedy of Russia's 9/11 | 9/22/2004 | See Source »

...ally who's not ideologically pure enough.) Yet it also makes for a kind of happy apartheid. You know that my naive ideas will lead America to crumble like Rome, and I know that morons like you are going to get me killed by a dirty bomb, but we never need to actually say a cross word to each other. Or anything at all, for that matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age of iPod Politics | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...says Maskhadov was "horrified at this atrocity," pledged cooperation and asked for guarantees of Maskhadov's safety when he came to Beslan. When they next talked, a day later, Dzasokhov said he needed two more hours to work out the details. It was too late: 40 minutes later, a bomb went off in the school and the slaughter began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talks That Failed | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...visit to Tunisia, he called on all other coalition countries to pull their forces out of Iraq. Zapatero constantly stresses that his government's resolve against terrorism is as firm as ever. The Socialists have faced charges at home and abroad that they only won the election because the bomb attacks scared the country into a retreat. Zapatero told TIME he "respects the views" of those who believe "that when the Spanish people voted for me they voted out of fear," but he contends such views reveal "a lack of knowledge of the Spanish people. This is the country that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Zen Of Zapatero | 9/19/2004 | See Source »

Every day in Iraq seems to bring a new horror. On Tuesday, for example, it was 47 killed by a car bomb in Baghdad, 11 slain by another in Baquba, 8 dead in a clash between U.S. troops and insurgents in Ramadi - and those were just the major incidents. U.S. casualties have risen every month since the June hand-over of political authority to the interim government of prime minister Iyad Allawi, and the pattern of confrontation is not encouraging. In April, the U.S. military fought insurgents in Fallujah, then battled Moqtada Sadr's men in Najaf in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Iraq's Not Getting Better | 9/15/2004 | See Source »

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