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...first hours after the tragedy, many Shia pilgrims blamed Sunni insurgent groups, even though first reports indicated the stampede was caused by (false) rumors of a suicide bomber at large on the bridge. "It's the fault of Sunnis for creating an atmosphere where such rumors are taken seriously," said Hussein Alwi, a pilgrim from Najaf. Some blamed American and Iraqi soldiers for setting up restrictive checkpoints elsewhere in the city that left the pilgrims just one way to the Kadhamiya Shrine...
...image of the unarmed British bobby took a hit last week after new details emerged about the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian killed by police when he was mistaken for a suspected suicide bomber the day after the failed July 21 terror attacks. In line with a shoot-to-kill policy put in place after Sept. 11, Menezes was shot eight times after boarding a London Underground train. Eyewitnesses said Menezes wore a heavy jacket, and that he vaulted over the ticket barrier. These observations seemed to tally with the limited information provided by police, who said...
...Deadly Mentality In your report "Inside The Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber" [July 4], you made it clear that influential Islamist leaders are brainwashing young Muslims. That means, then, that those young people can be positively influenced by other Muslim leaders, parents, friends and teachers as well. The fight against terrorism will be won in the schools and mosques. And those institutions have not risen to meet their responsibilities. The young man in your article said he feels much closer to his jihadist brothers than to his family. Shame on the Muslim community for not taking responsibility...
...proud when he hears stories like the one the rock singer David Crosby told him: that The Fisher King had freed him from feeling guilty about his girlfriend's death in a car crash. "But there's a dangerous side to affecting people," says the director. The Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was inspired by Robert De Niro's sinister portrayal of a dissident in Brazil and took the character's surname, Tuttle, for his alias...
SENTENCED. AHMED RESSAM, 38, the so-called millennium bomber who plotted to attack Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the new century; to 22 years in prison; in Seattle. During the sentencing hearing, Judge John Coughenour rebuked the Bush Administration, noting that "we did not need to use a secret military tribunal, detain the defendant indefinitely as an enemy combatant or deny [him] the right to counsel...