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...border town of Chaman, I went to talk to a merchant who owned an import-export business. It was a dusty shop front with a very large carpet and no furniture other than a few bolsters. It didn't look like much, but appearances in this part of the world can be deceptive. Ostentation attracts envy - and trouble. It turns out this merchant, Haji Amanullah, and his brothers are very rich and very famous around these parts. They live in a 130-room palace outside Chaman and have offices in Tokyo, Dubai, Quetta and Karachi. He's going to Paris...
...Middle East. But no effort at redress by the West will work unless the Muslim world as a whole rethinks its relation to modernity. Why is it that Africa, though poorer and more hurt by the West, did not create a terrorist phenomenon? Why did Latin America export its "purest" terrorist product, Carlos the Jackal, to the Middle East...
...embarrassed by the West’s history of colonialism and overcome by guilt to realize that the freedom we enjoy in Western countries is our most valuable export to non-Western ones? Should we be deterred by those who seek to dilute the strength of our worldwide efforts at expanding freedom and democracy by saying that our values conflict with “Asian values” or “Islamic values”? The slaughtered demonstrators of Tiananmen Square and the young Internet-surfers in Teheran belie such generalizations. Iran and China will never look like America...
...hope the U.S. may begin to export democracy more vigorously. I grew up in Cairo and was a journalist there for many years, and I have seen firsthand the effects of institutionalized brutality and an endemic disregard for human rights. I hope that in the future the U.S. will be less inclined to accommodate tin-pot autocrats in the interest of economic stability and more willing to use economic and diplomatic pressure to bring about a global acceptance of the freedoms we take for granted in North America. MOHAMED RAGHEB Toronto...
...Laden's far-flung business dealings have been a tremendous asset to his network. U.S. officials believe he has interests in agricultural companies, banking and investment firms, construction companies and import-export firms around the globe. Says a U.S. official: "This empire is useful for moving people, money, materials, providing cover." Though American authorities did break up two al-Qaeda fund-raising operations in the past year, they have been mostly unsuccessful in finding and freezing bin Laden's assets...