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Where exactly does terrorism start? In the past two years, the U.S. has leaned hard on its allies across the globe to crack down on the sources of Islamist militancy. While the governments of Pakistan, Britain and Indonesia have moved against known terrorists, radicalism can bury its roots deep within a culture, especially in places where the message of jihad is taught to the next generation. TIME visited three hot spots of militant Islam...
...such relentless perfection--Mad magazine, the Fantastic Four, graffiti tags, Car Wash, Star Wars--that we get the big picture too, the story of the 1970s told as a painful national adolescence. Soul begets funk begets rap. Cigarettes lead to weed, which gives way to cocaine, which leads to crack. As they get older, Mingus grows harder and quieter, Dylan nerdier but more confident. Yet a slender but tough strand still connects the boys, and they fight against all the usual suspects--racism, violence, their parents' failing marriages--to keep it. In the novel's second half, really an extended...
...weekend of Mahmoud Abbas as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. has lost the one Palestinian leader with whom it believed it could do business. In response, the Administration hopes to punish Yasser Arafat for undermining Abbas' efforts to assert authority over the Palestinian security apparatus and crack down on militant groups like Hamas. A senior State Department official says the U.S. plans to push European and Arab leaders to cut ties with Arafat and demand that the Palestinians elect a new leader. "We don't work with Arafat," says the official. "We're not going to work...
...proved more inclined to deal, discreetly, with Arafat?s proxies, even while avoiding the PA president himself. Washington sought to sidestep Qureia?s challenge, saying the new prime minister would be judged by the same standard Washington has used with Abbas - the extent to which he?s willing to crack down on Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other radical groups. But Qureia is no more likely than Abbas to launch a Palestinian civil war, and he?s insisting on Arafat?s rehabilitation as a precondition for new peace efforts...
According to Ashcroft, the Patriot Act took tools that have historically been available to law enforcement agents to crack down on drug dealers and made them available for fighting terrorists...