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...clash began on March 2 after Air Force First Sergeant Budianto was arrested following a fight with a civilian. His colleagues came to the station demanding his release and, in an attempt to avoid a confrontation, the police assented. But when the air force crew returned two days later to retrieve Budianto's military ID card, they found it was in the possession of one of the civilians who filed the initial complaint. Furious with the police for not returning the ID, air force soldiers attacked the station later that night, fatally stabbing a police officer...
...targeted for destruction because of what it represented—capitalism, free trade, material wealth, greed, power and even the secular, democratic way of life. The attacks represented a clash of civilizations, yet the terrorists struck at progressive society with products of its own technological sophistication. The deaths of thousands of innocent citizens going about their workday routines helped to elevate this disaster to mythic stature. Who could have conceived of being attacked while making photocopies in a normal office environment? This tragedy stripped away the fragile veneer of security and stability from our daily lives...
...swept up in righteous determination, dutiful loyalty and terrifying excitement. He scouts targets, assesses their vulnerability and helps plant the devices. But Khan is eventually abandoned by his cohorts, left penniless and finally captured. Such portraits reveal more about the roots of terrorism than a thousand theories about the clash of civilizations could. As the U.S. deploys its full military might against Iraq in the face of almost unanimous hostility from the Muslim world, Zaidi's book stands as a timely reminder of how, in the hands of a few men, revenge can throw a nation into panic...
DIED. JOE STRUMMER, 50, punk rock's godfather, born John Mellor, who co-founded the seminal band the Clash, which took punk to adventurous new heights; of a heart attack; in Broomfield, Britain. Unlike fellow punk pioneers the Sex Pistols, whose nihilistic motto was No Future, the Clash, in its Latin-, reggae-and soul-infused songs, including London Calling, White Riot and The Call Up, urged action against social injustice and pretentious poseurs. Though the Clash split up in 1986, Strummer later found new popularity with the band the Mescaleros...
...gets ready to clash with men’s co-captain Scott Silver or whoever else is around at the time. They haven’t had anyone else to fence against at the MAC in weeks...