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...morning of his last day alive, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, head cleric of Islamabad's besieged Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), swore his readiness to die. "My martyrdom is certain," he told the local press. Within hours, Ghazi's bullet-riddled body was carted out of the basement of the sprawling mosque and madrasah, or seminary, complex where he and scores of heavily armed militants had battled Pakistani security forces for eight days. Ghazi is dead, but he may well come to haunt the President, General Pervez Musharraf, and the country...
...playing with fire by attacking a mosque and risking civilian casualties. The authorities weren't saying how many noncombatants had been killed, but, given the vicious, close-quarter fighting and the thousands of students, including women and children, inside the complex, the miracle was that more people did not die...
...thinks that the importing companies should be responsible. That would be the same as putting Congress in charge of your bank account. It is the business of the Federal Government to protect its citizens from dangerous imports. Unfortunately, the current Federal Government will look the other way as citizens die from dangerous products if the Chinese government buys more American stuff. Does that sound like a good trade...
...What strikes you is the magnitude of the shock. It hit me every time. You don't know if you're going to live or die. You don't know what kind of pain you're going to face. You don't know if you're going to be able to make those theater tickets on Thursday. You don't know anything. Everything that was certain 10 minutes ago is not certain...
...want to live anywhere else," Petrie says. "I think there is going to be a lot of opportunity here. The city is not going to die. It's going to get rebuilt at some point. It's just very frustrating that we're not taking the actions that we could take, short-term, to accelerate that...