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Step by step, Omar found himself stuck on the violent path of his father's choosing. Forced by American pressure to leave Sudan for Afghanistan, Osama settled his family in stone huts high on a mountain in Tora Bora, despite the fact that Najwa was pregnant with her 10th child. Osama sent his sons to al-Qaeda training camps, to the front lines of the Afghan civil war and to attend hours of mind-numbing jihadist indoctrination. Omar and his father narrowly survived a U.S. cruise-missile strike that was launched in retaliation for the al-Qaeda bomb attacks...
...madness of al-Qaeda was fueled in part by several acts of animal cruelty by his father's men. When they lived in Sudan, one of the family guards killed Omar's pet monkey by running it over with a truck, explaining that the creature was in fact a Jew turned into a monkey by the hand of God. Later, Omar learned that it was his father who taught the guard that monkeys were Jews...
...volunteers] come down aware of the work and the love that one has to have with the animal," he says. "If one comes passively, with love, the animals are in peace. This is the No. 1 basis for this work. Everything carries a risk, but thanks to the fact that we do it with love, that produces positive energy...
...Despite the fact that the trial is under way, Karadzic's boycott has cast a pall over the tribunal, which was set up 15 years ago by the U.N. Security Council to try those responsible for atrocities committed during the war. Many survivors and relatives of victims fear that Karadzic's trial will play out similarly to that of former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, who used repeated stall tactics to drag out his proceedings for three years before eventually dying in custody. Many of the problems stemmed from the decision by the tribunal to allow Milosevic to defend himself...
...graves in Srebrenica in an attempt to prove that the number of victims was grossly exaggerated and that many of the victims were not even Bosnian Muslims. "Everything in relation to Srebrenica that has been presented so far is erroneous ... Everything is contentious and everything needs to be established fact by fact," Karadzic said at the pretrial hearing in July. (Read "Karadzic Called to Reckoning...