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...Most of all, we miss the living presence of Dieter Dengler, who died five years ago. When we met him in Little Dieter, he was driving in a solid car, living in a stolid middle class house, having spent the rest of his life as a test pilot (he managed to survive four more plane crashes), apparently unmarked by his youthful adventures. That came to be the most heroic thing about him - his ability to embrace normalcy, to talk about the past almost as if it were a story that happened to someone else. There was a tranquility about...
...Amanda Ripley suggested that the John F. Kennedy Airport terrorists were amateurs and therefore not a major problem. But most terrorists are amateurs. It doesn't take much training to be a suicide bomber. A car bomb is clearly the work of an amateur. A couple of amateurs in a small boat blew a hole in the U.S.S. Cole. The discovery of the J.F.K. plot is a good thing. Nobody knows the extent of the disaster that could have happened if the plot had been allowed to develop. Americans want to thwart all attacks, whether the terrorists are amateurs...
...that peace was shattered in the early hours of Sunday. In the wake of Saturday's car bomb attack on Glasgow's main airport - just a day after two cars packed with explosives and nails were discovered in central London - police raided a house on the Crescent that was home, neighbors say, to two men in their late 20s or early 30s who looked Middle Eastern or South Asian...
...night-clubbers and wounded hundreds more by detonating two separate devices, one to draw curious onlookers and a second that exploded in the midst of the assembled crowd. A first explosion outside Tiger Tiger might well have drawn onlookers to Cockspur Street, into the range of the second potential car bomb. With reporting by Eben Harrell/Houston
...fraternize. Parents concerned about the violence in the streets force their children, especially daughters, to remain indoors. Only the bravest go out for dinner, since restaurants are popular targets for suicide bombers. The lovers' lane near the Jadhariya bridge is marked by the burned and twisted remains of two car bombs; a police checkpoint ensures there is no loitering. Like Ubaid and Ali, many young couples have to conduct their relationships on the phone...