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Adding to the exoticism, "Stripburger" originates in Slovenia and the contributing artists form a mini-Balkans with representatives from Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Italy, France and England. (All the works are in English.) Not surprisingly the comix themselves are as unconventional as their package. One book has been designed to look like screen shots of a lost Atari 2600 video game about a prince and an onion-soup-loving demon. Andrej Stular's "Hole" has a single panel per page - an inky, scratchy image of urban grief accompanied by a word or phrase that may or may not connect...
...many a Harvard intellectual this idea is probably seems so unfathomable as not to be worthy of their “enlightened” discourse. To them, America’s failure to adequately defend Bosnia in the early 1990s demonstrates our religious bias against Muslims, while the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia to protect the Kosovar Muslims is a display of U.S. attempts at hegemony. The U.S.-imposed sanctions on Iraq are responsible for 1.5 million children’s deaths, while Saddam Hussein is absolved of responsibility for delaying the implementation of the oil-for-food program for more...
...keeps in touch with his brethren in Algeria or Indonesia through the Internet, doesn't employ the fire and brimstone of the village cleric to justify terrorist acts. Instead, he sees the conspiracy against Islam in geopolitical omens: foreign debt, IMF restrictions, wars against Muslims in Chechnya and Bosnia, and the Palestinians versus Israel. But often this cool rhetoric masks a hair-trigger emotionalism, an angry hurt. As one senior Pakistani police counterterrorism expert, Muhammed Shoaib Suddle, remarked: "What drives people to this madness? It has nothing to do with reality but with the perceptions that are created. Even...
...summit there, French cops picked up two ethnic-Arab suspects, one of whom cracked under questioning and revealed the true nature of "gang of Roubaix." The group was in fact a collection of Muslim militants (most of them white French converts) who had been radicalized during visits to Bosnia. Robbery was used to finance arms purchases, and to create false ID documents to facilitate the movement of Islamist terrorists transiting France. The group had recruited men for their "holy war," and had staged attacks when instructed...
...proving whether Kamel "worked for bin Laden." But, they say, it is clear that in the decentralized, compartmentalized and intersecting root system of Islamic networks, Kamel had been given the responsibility for creating and transporting false ID documents used by militants being assembled in Turkey, Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Bosnia and North America...