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...Kimberly Munley, the SWAT-team markswoman nicknamed Mighty Mouse, who with her partner ran toward the sound of gunshots at the Soldier Readiness Center, where men and women about to deploy gather for vaccinations and eye exams. It's practically been a motto stitched on their sleeves - "Better to fight the terrorists there than here" - except now they were at home, and there was one of their own, a U.S. officer, jumping up, shouting "God is great" in a language he could barely speak and then opening fire. (See pictures of Nidal Malik Hasan's apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Hood Killer: Terrified ... or Terrorist? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...Even as the President weighs how to fight the wars he inherited, he and the entire U.S. security apparatus will have to figure out how you fight a war against an enemy you can't recognize, much less understand. In that sense, the war on terrorism has left the battlefield and moved to the realm of the mind. The good news is that al-Qaeda's throw weight is much diminished; the bad news is that terrorism is now an entrepreneurial arena, with the Internet as its global recruiting station, attracting the lost, the loners, the guy with a coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Hood Killer: Terrified ... or Terrorist? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...leaderless resistance" is the wave of the future, it may be less lethal but harder to fight; there are fewer clues to collect and less chatter to hear, even as information about means and methods is so much more widely dispersed. It is more like spontaneous combustion than someone from the outside lighting a match. Senator Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee warned of this threat in a report last year. "The emergence of these self-generated violent Islamist extremists who are radicalized online presents a challenge," the report concluded, "because lone wolves are less likely to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Hood Killer: Terrified ... or Terrorist? | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...regarding marriage. Hartman said more ordinary gay and lesbian people are going to spread their message themselves, rather than leaving it to national gay-rights-campaign officials and full-time activists. "People are getting angrier," Hartman says. "More and more people are beginning to feel empowered to take the fight for their rights into their own hands, and I believe we will see them confront their legislators face-to-face with greater frequency and urgency. I believe that is the type of confrontation that will emerge - people no longer willing to sit idly by and leave the fight for their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Maine, the Battle Lines Over Gay Marriage Harden | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

Seated behind bulletproof glass and flanked by medics on the second day of his current trial on Nov. 2, Boere still appeared ready to fight. Defense attorney Gordon Christiansen filed a motion for the trial to be abandoned on the grounds that Boere was already convicted in 1949 and E.U. rules prohibit people from being tried for the same crime twice. "This is a formal procedure," says Christiansen. "The court has to rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Former Nazi Hitman, 88, Finally Stands Trial | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

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