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...findings show that the Thracians had wealth that rivaled that of any other great kingdom of the time." The Thracians were known as great warriors; Spartacus, the gladiator slave who led a rebel war against the Romans, was a Thracian. And they were renowned throughout the ancient world as expert metalworkers; in The Iliad, Homer describes the Thracian King's golden armor as "a wonder to behold, such as it is in no wise fit for mortal men to bear, but for the deathless gods." With little else to go on, historians have tended to rely on ancient Greek depictions...
...IISS expert estimated Tuesday that there were some 1,000 foreign fighters in Iraq, out of a total force of hardcore insurgent fighters believed to number up to 20,000. But the Institute warned that the campaign against the U.S. in Iraq has begun to play the role that the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan once did in creating the first generation of al-Qaeda leaders. Its experts warned that Iraq "could serve as a valuable proving ground for 'blooding' foreign jihadists, and could conceivably form the basis of a second generation of capable al-Qaeda leaders ... and middle management...
...Like Christians regarding Christ, Muslims believe that the Koran was not created but has existed with God for all eternity. If "Jesus is God's revelation, and the meaning [to Christians] of that revelation unfolds in the events of his life as described in the Gospels," writes comparative religion expert F.E. Peters in his book The Monotheists, in Islam the Koran "is the revelation." To say, as Georgetown University Islam expert John Voll does, that Newsweek's account portrayed Americans "flushing God down the toilet" might seem extreme. But Voll suggests that a sense of the offense involved...
Koranic defilement is a recurring Islamic concern. The first recorded prefiguring of the alleged insult at Gitmo may have been in the 1200s when Mongols invading Baghdad were said to have used Koran pages as toilet paper. But as early as the 700s, notes UCLA Islamic-law expert Khaled Abou El Fadl, jurists commenced a centuries-long debate over the just punishment for spitting on it, impaling it or feeding it to goats...
DIED. MARC LAPPE, 62, outspoken medical ethicist and founding fellow at New York's Hastings Center; of cancer; in Gualala, Calif. Regularly called as an expert witness on environmental contamination, he gave testimony on silicone breast implants that helped lead to a $3.2 billion settlement by Dow Corning Corp., the implants' manufacturer, in 1992--the year the FDA banned general use of the implants...