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...much more. Within a few years, the Markaz had expanded to include a madrasah, separate schools for boys and girls, a free hospital and a university. Its founders, Hafiz Saeed, Zafar Iqbal and Abdullah Azzam - the latter was bin Laden's mentor until he was killed by a car bomb in Peshawar in 1989 - declared that their objective was to create a model Islamic environment removed from state interference. Education would focus on jihad but also emphasize science and technology. The campus includes stables, fishponds, playing fields, a foundry, a carpentry workshop, a mosque and computer-enabled classrooms...
...Real IRA' is believed to have carried out the attack. The group is one of a number of so-called dissident republicans - hardliners who oppose the power-sharing government between Northern Ireland's Protestant and Catholic political parties. The 'Real IRA' was also responsible for the Omagh bomb which claimed 29 lives in 1998 - the bloodiest atrocity in Northern Ireland's 30-year sectarian conflict...
...dividing neighbors and friends, much less politicians. "Edward Kennedy may never have said outwardly he supported the [Irish Republican terror group] IRA, but he certainly ...was no friend of the U.K.," said Lord Tebbitt, a stalwart of Margaret Thatcher's government, whose wife was crippled by an IRA bomb attack in 1984. "This honor is wholly inappropriate on the basis of the sleaze attached to [Kennedy] after the crash at Chappaquiddick, let alone his support for nationalism in Northern Ireland...
Fufuli described how, when the car bomb exploded nearby, all his books were knocked down and his metal gate was twisted. "Thanks to God, I was away from the shop at the time," he says. After that, for a while, the street was deserted. The explosion killed 38 and was a well-documented tragedy...
Fufuli, for one, shrugs at the street's evolution. "I did not leave [after the bomb blast] because I loved my father's business," he says. "But no one will take over my store. My son studies computer science. It will be sold." In the meantime, he is simply pleased that security has improved, though as he puts it, looking down the street, "it has not reached safety." He shakes his head. "The measurement is when there are a lot of women here...