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...though the war in Afghanistan never met the visceral opposition in much of Europe that the Iraq war did, support for the Afghan operation has fallen. In 2002, for example, 51% of Germans approved of German participation in the Afghan war; by late last year, just 29% approved. More than one half of respondents in a recent poll by the Allensbach Institute said they believed that German participation undermined German security by drawing unwanted attention from would-be terrorists. In Spain, according to a 2007 survey by Instituto Opina, a Barcelona-based polling group, over 51% said that they wanted...
...Iraq seems to be on the upswing. The weekend's violence indicates that both the Sunni insurgency and the Shi'ite militias retain their ability and their desire to strike their enemies. The largest Shi'ite militia, the Mahdi Army, is observing a cease-fire and militia violence has fallen dramatically. But rogue elements of the organization continue to launch attacks against Americans. Sunday's mortars were launched from a Shi'ite enclave...
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was the kind of guy you could have taken home to mom. Smart and friendly, he once jumped in front of a train in a London tube station to rescue a fallen commuter. But he also, in the name of the Islamist cause, gleefully threatened a hostage with decapitation in 1994. That hostage survived, but Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal Pakistan correspondent whom Sheikh is charged with kidnapping in January 2002, did not. The video of Pearl's beheading can still be found on the Internet (though the identity of the actual knife wielder remains...
...face off neutrally; and the assignment of an indisputable qualitative value. That last element, the seedings, may seem like cruel status reinforcement, but when an upset happens?and upsets always happen?its magnitude can be assessed with statistical clarity, so that we know just how far the mighty have fallen and how high the mutts have leaped...
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was the kind of guy you could have taken home to Mom. Smart and friendly, he once jumped in front of a train in a London tube station to rescue a fallen commuter. But he also, in the name of the Islamist cause, gleefully threatened a hostage with decapitation in 1994. That hostage survived, but Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal Pakistan correspondent whom Sheikh is charged with kidnapping in January 2002, did not. The video of Pearl's beheading can still be found on the Internet (though the identity of the actual knife wielder remains...