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Will the U.S. elect a female President anytime soon? You could be forgiven for saying yes, since Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin came closer to the finish line than any women in history. But you would be wrong, says Washington Post White House reporter Anne E. Kornblut. The 2008 election, she writes, may actually have been one of the worst things ever for women in U.S. politics: "It revived old stereotypes, divided the women's movement, drove apart mothers and daughters, and set back the cause of equality in the political sphere by decades." Clinton and Palin suffered brutal personal...
...Hijrah were largely uncontroversial. Indeed, he spoke out against radicals, prompting the New York Times in October 2001 to label him as one of a "new generation of Muslim leader capable of merging East and West." But at the same time, intelligence officials say, he was steadily drawing closer to al-Qaeda: al-Hazmi introduced him to Hani Hanjour, another of the Flight 77 hijackers...
What distinguishes al-Awlaki is not his record; other preachers have had demonstrably closer links to al-Qaeda and jihad. It is his target audience. Al-Awlaki aims his sermons at young Muslims mostly living in the U.S. and Britain. This is a group he understands better than any other radical preacher. In his fluent English, he has become that rare specimen: the jihadist cleric who can communicate effortlessly with audiences in the West. His tone and his message can appear seductively conciliatory. Most of his sermons have nothing at all to do with radical ideology; they are simple translations...
...exhorted his audience to jihad, he might have gotten no more than passing attention from Washington. But intelligence officials and counterterrorism experts insist that he is no longer content to preach. His association with AQAP, which may be the terrorist network's most ambitious franchise, has brought al-Awlaki closer to the practice of terrorism. "Over the past several years, he has gone from propagandist to recruiter to operational player," a counterterrorism official tells TIME. "He is clearly moving up the terrorist supply chain...
...from his Moderate Enlightenment series, in which Pakistanis are shown doing everyday things. These gouache portraits, an old Mughal genre Akhlaq helped to revitalize, are seductively simple at first - one figure, apparently a writer of some kind, is depicted musing tranquilly beneath a tree with a notebook. But a closer look reveals his camouflage socks, suggesting he's no entranced poet but perhaps a scribbler of terrorist screeds...