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...Ozudogru, who runs a small chandelier business, was one of the first at the scene at the Neve Shalom synagogue. "Arms and legs and bits of flesh were everywhere," he says. "I saw one person totally burnt, with just his eyes moving." A group calling itself the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front claimed responsibility for the attacks in the name of "oppressed Muslims everywhere." But security analysts familiar with the group are skeptical. Closely coordinated attacks using cars packed with explosives triggered by remote detonators "pointed outside the country," says a Western diplomat. Turkey retains closer ties with Israel than...
...street were gutted. Twisted pieces of the vehicle carrying the bomb-reportedly a red Fiat that cameras caught parking in front of the building just before the blast (its driver walked away)-were thrown up to 500 meters away. Shortly after the explosions, a group calling itself the Great Eastern Islamic Raider's Front claimed responsibility for the attack in the name of "oppressed Muslims everywhere...
...America’s new attitude towards international students has extended beyond simply keeping track of them to actually diminishing their ranks. In the last two years, the number of student visas issued to students from Middle Eastern countries has fallen drastically, by over 60 percent, even from countries that are officially friends of America such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Applying for a visa has become a harrowing and slow process—a Harvard undergraduate from Malaysia waited three and a half months for his visa, finally being obliged to defer entry for a year, while a Harvard...
...wall; the president must return to the U.N. and make a more authentic appeal for assistance—allowing for the possibility of relinquishing power to an international body. The U.N. has a strong track record of maintaining order in such diverse places as Namibia, El Salvador, Cambodia, eastern Slavonia, Mozambique and Cyprus. An institution Bush once wrote off as “irrelevant” may soon become his—and Iraq’s—only hope...
...that is refreshing and revolutionary. Ebadi went to jail to protest political repression and domestic violence, and she fought for women's custody rights in divorce cases. (Men always get custody of the children.) Her achievements in Iran are inspiring because they contradict the stereotype of the oppressed Middle Eastern woman. Being an Iranian female myself, I am proud that Ebadi has set an example for all Iranian women to stand up for equality in every aspect of life. Ladan Nekoomaram Noblesville...