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...that Ho Chi Minh's "hearts and minds" approach could withstand burning showers of napalm and carpet-bombing from B-52s. The poison of Islamic fundamentalism will survive any aggression we mount against it. Roots don't submit to violence. (Chop up a crabgrass root, and it breeds a dozen new offspring.) You have to patiently dig and dig, and never give up until the job's done. (See pictures of Saudi Arabia's Jihad Rehab Camp...
...everyone is thrilled by the renewed enthusiasm for Sunday's entertainment at Acho. A dozen protesters carried anti-bullfighting signs in front of the arena on the second Sunday of the short season. They were surrounded and outnumbered by mounted police officers by more than...
...their childhood memories are being blasted away.” CLOSE TO HOMEMashruwala’s parents ate dinner at the Taj Mahal Hotel the night before the attacks. They live just fifteen minutes from the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, two of more than a dozen locations in Mumbai that came under fire last Wednesday.“My parents were going to go to the movie theatre that got blown up that day and decided to stay home,” she said. When she first heard about the locations of the bombings, Mashruwala said...
Soon after the officer spoke, the fighting appeared to get exponentially worse. Between 3:30 and 7 p.m. there were at least a dozen huge blasts coming from inside the hotel. Many of them were immediately followed by volleys of gunfire. There were also smaller blasts - the sound of grenades. The larger blasts were most likely the National Security Guard commandos setting off explosives to clear sections of the hotel. The officer would not confirm that, but it was exactly the same blasts I would hear and see later in the day at Nariman House, the residence...
...beloved landmark in this city, and its residents will have to get used to the idea of a Taj that will never be the same. Disbelieving Mumbaikars have been watching as their city of 12 million has been paralyzed - shops closed, streets emptied - by just two dozen attackers...