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...related calls a week. "Tuesday night in a suburb outside Charlotte, someone reported a plane dropping white powder over a children's center," says McCrory. The city issued a full alert, closed the roads, and sent in men in contamination suits. Turns out the white powder was from a cement plant next door; a plane happened to go by, but nothing was dropped. Anyone else want to be mayor right...
...Allah Mahmad is an example of the human cement that holds together the opposition Northern Alliance. In other times he would have been a farmer, working in the lush wheat fields and fruit orchards of the Shomali Plain around Bagram. Instead, at 27, he has seen six years of combat. With his high-set cheekbones, goatee, checked shawl and round woolen cap he bears a passing resemblance to Ahmad Shah Massoud, the assassinated commander who assembled these forces. In a conventional army Allah Mahmad would be a captain. Here he's called commander, a hard-earned rank denoting his seniority...
...soundly at night’,” he explains. And the ropes do not budge. When in the “down” position the bed frame itself rests on the wooden structure. But when up, the frame and mattress are counter weighted by four two-pound cement blocks. It’s incredibly sturdy. “I’m confident that it could hold four to five people, but it’s only been tested with two so far,” says Matchett...
...extend it. His training camps in post-Soviet Afghanistan became a kind of international university of terrorism, offering courses in murder and mayhem to which radical Islamic movements all over the world were invited. And he also provided financial support to some of these regional insurgencies in order to cement ties and win their loyalty. Besides enabling their local struggles, his objective was also to align them with his global jihad against America, thereby greatly extending his operational reach. Al Qaida-linked terror operations have been carried out by Saudis, Pakistanis, Yemenis, Egyptians, Algerians, Lebanese, Mauritanians, Palestinians and more. Many...
...appalled that this tragedy is being used as a way to further cement political agendas and opinions not just by Cohen but by others such as Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson. Like Cohen said, right now “We need caring solidarity among all Americans. We need to protect our country, to care for the victims and their families and actually identify our enemy.” We don’t need to use the events of last week as an excuse to bash men and smugly assert the moral superiority of one gender over the other...