Word: countrymen
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First he must weather the gathering crisis that could flash into ungovernable riots at any provocation. Last week he agreed to let U.S. forces use two Pakistani air bases, while assuring his countrymen they would be used only for logistics, not combat. Although Washington forewarned him, the President will take heat from all sides now that the U.S. has issued a freeze order on the assets of the Rabita Trust, a three-decade-old Pakistan charity reportedly enjoying support from top officials, including Musharraf. The U.S. said Rabita's secretary-general was a founder of bin Laden's al-Qaeda...
...Meanwhile, an unknown number of independent laboratories have developed technologies to produce smallpox; at least two of those labs are in the former Soviet Union, and others may be spearheaded by their former countrymen, wooed away by various rogue nations...
President George W. Bush has made it very clear that America’s war is not against Islam, and the administration has called on Americans to treat respectfully their fellow-countrymen who have a different religion or skin color. America should take pride in its protection of minorities at home; our tolerance is what separates us from those whom we fight against. But we must also take care to ensure that the antiterrorism campaign does not become, in the hands of undemocratic states, a blank check to repress Muslim minorities abroad...
...troops are in Saudi Arabia at the invitation of the Saudi government, which was frightened into the move by a threat of invasion by Iraq's Saddam Hussein in 1990, the Saudi regime, says bin Laden, "is fully responsible" for their presence. Thus he has called on his countrymen to overthrow the House of Saud. Still, he has targeted his attacks not on the rulers but on the Americans, noting that "the American enemy is the main cause of the situation...
...reconcile its dueling natures?a majority that is moderate in matters of religion and politics, and a vocal, well-organized minority that can be heavy-handed and obscurantist. Attiya and Aslam represent the two sides of the divide. With university degrees, they are better educated than most of their countrymen?the national literacy rate is less than 40%?but the choices they have made and the paths they have taken in life mirror the choices that a polarized Pakistan must also make. Should the nation move forward and be part of the modern world? Or will it seek answers from...