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Over the past year we've been painfully reminded that the clash of cultures can be horrific. Hindus and Muslims slaughtering one another on the subcontinent. Jews and Palestinians locked in a death grip on the Levant. Extremist Muslims declaring jihad on America and destroying cherished symbols of that country...
To support his theory, Meyssan plays up factual oddities or gray areas surrounding the attacks--a skeptical focus facilitated by secrecy rules imposed by the investigations. He notes that no film footage of the Pentagon explosion exists, and regards eyewitness testimony of the crash as suspicious, contradictory or flatly incredible...
But on that wretched day in January 2001, Hussain found some small consolation in his secret. He is convinced that just a few meters away from where the Taliban were war dancing lies a third, giant Buddha hidden beneath the earth, wearing a blissful smile, unperturbed by the terrible destruction...
Other scholars want the Buddha brought to light. More than anything right now, they say, Afghans need the Buddha unearthed as symbolic proof that the Taliban weren't able to eradicate all of the country's rich, pre-Islamic heritage. The country is a historian's treasure trove. Between the...
Rice acknowledges the limits to the new relationship. "There are still some hard issues with the Russians," she says. The hardest, by far, is Moscow's refusal to stop supplying Iran - which Bush identified as a member of the "axis of evil" - with know-how that the U.S. fears could...