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...council of jihadist groups, under the leadership of Abu Abdallah Rashid al-Baghdadi, a previously unknown figure. The objective, says the official, is to put an Iraqi face on the jihad. "He's savvy enough to realize he's a foreigner in Iraq," he says. Last week's video bore the council's name, Shura al-Mujahedin, although the black flag of al-Zarqawi's group, al-Qaeda in Iraq, was occasionally visible...
...Army investigation has found that while neither Jordan or Pappas personally participated in the abuse of prisoners, both bore some responsibility by virtue of their command status. Other investigations have said that Jordan was inexperienced in interrogation and intelligence collection, often deferring decisions to lower-ranking soldiers under his command to whom he provided inadequate supervision. The Army has offered no explanation as to why Pappas faces less serious charges than Jordan, or why the charges against Jordan are only being brought now, when those against Pappas were settled last year...
...Authorities have cast doubts on speculation that the terrorists were part of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, saying they appeared to be home-grown religious fanatics. Still, Monday's attack bore some of al-Qaeda's hallmarks. Though the size of the bombs was relatively small and they did not appear to be carried by suicide attackers, the operation featured simultaneous explosions designed to produce maximum headlines as well as casualties...
Diana lived them. Her prince really came. She grew famous beyond measure, bore two healthy sons and acquired a regal platform for her generous heart. For all the opprobrium heaped last week by Diana's admirers on the chilly Windsors, she would have been invisible without them. The lonely youngest daughter of divorced parents, she translated her own pain not into bitterness and withdrawal but into a genuine desire to comfort the suffering of others--people afflicted with AIDS and leprosy and breast cancer, the mutilated victims of land mines. She could have done far worse with her fortune...
...Aptly enough, Reilly chose to write about the unwritten rules of sports. Several of the dicta that he goes on to enumerate, including one about stealing when owning a late lead in a baseball game, struck me as extremely pertinent. Then I reached the end of the article, which bore the following disclaimer: “Rick Reilly is on vacation this week. This column first appeared in the Jan. 16, 1995, issue.” Over a decade old, I marveled, but not in the least bit outdated. That’s because there’s a certain...