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...well that today?s militants have shucked off many of the attributes that earmarked their precursors. Ziad Jarrah, for one, suspected by the FBI of being among the hijackers of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, exhibited none of the alienation or obsessiveness that characterized other suspects. His cousin Salim Jarrah, 26, who owns a trattoria, catering service and dry-cleaning establishment in the town of Greifswald on Germany?s Baltic Sea coast, says Ziad preferred discos to "veiled women." He recalls him sneaking shots from a bottle of whisky hidden in the refrigerator at a cousin?s wedding...
...Takfiri connection is terrible news. By assimilating into host societies-some won't even worship with other Muslims-it's easy for Takfiris to escape detection. Those stories of the Sept. 11 hijackers drinking in bars and carousing in Las Vegas may now have an explanation. Jarrah's cousin Salim, who lives in the German town of Greifswald, claims that they "used to go to church more than to the mosque." Jarrah, says Salim, loved discos-"We didn't need veiled women and all that"-and sneaked shots of whiskey during a family wedding. He makes Jarrah sound like...
...with a glance around his embattled domain. "Plus a couple of rocket launchers and a machine gun. We can also call on fire support from tanks back at the second line." The boys come up for four or five days at a time, then rotate with a brother or cousin...
...crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel/ They're making me feel I'm home." Lyrical portraits of New York aren?t always pretty. In 1994, the rapper Nas released a song titled "NY State of Mind" with lyrics that go "I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death... I think of crime when I'm in a New York state of Mind." Not exactly a tourist slogan. The tradition of documenting New York in song continues in the 21st century. The Irish rock band U2 have a song on their newest album entitled "New York": "Irish...
...believe him?”) The show breaks briefly while the audience joins a buffet line near the edge of the bar, but even there, no one is safe from harassment. An audience member who declined to eat ziti noodles topped with meat sauce instantly drew the ire of cousin Carmine. “I don’t eat sausage,” the diner explained. “Sure, honey, whatever you say,” Carmine brusquely responded...