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The war for Gaza is over. After the firing ceased, Gazans dashed to the bazaar to stock up on emergency supplies, certain that Israel would close the borders. Then families flocked to the beach to celebrate an end to months of fighting. The Islamic militants of Hamas--whose charter calls...
For many of us, the horrendous murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2002 remains the signature event in the war on terror. The deaths at the World Trade Center left us with indelible images of mass destruction, but the victims of 9/11 were essentially...
Thin-voiced and thickly bespectacled, Abdallah, 28, fits every geek stereotype, right down to the acne and the flash drive on his key chain. His laboratory is a workbench in the bedroom of his Baghdad home. He says his tools are primitive - soldering irons, old printed circuit boards, discarded TV...
This was a profoundly radical vision, a conscious effort to use the U.S. military as the primary instrument of foreign policy, a garbled, brutish update of Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" aggressiveness. But as the rationale for war in Iraq evaporated with the mirage of Saddam Hussein's weapons of...
Yet when U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf announced the bust, she deployed code-red verbiage: "Had the plot been carried out, it could have resulted in unfathomable damage, deaths and destruction." It was "chilling." The devastation could have been "unthinkable."