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...along, but by this summer those suspicions had firmed up. There was no indication of the plot they had in mind, but there were strong hints of links to bin Laden associates, including a connection to a suspect in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, enough to raise a flag in the CIA database. A U.S. official deep in the investigation says it has now been determined from Immigration and Naturalization Service records that Al-Midhar and Alhamzi visited the U.S. briefly in 2000. They returned in July 2001, giving "Marriott in New York City" as their destination...
...Someone just kicked me in the head,” she said. My friend is a photographer. She had been chilling out at Hempfest, a “smokeout love-in” at Boston Common. Four skaters walked by her, each holding a corner of an enormous American flag. My friend was so taken by this sight that she readied her camera. Just then, a man ran up from out of nowhere and kicked her in the head. He screamed, “Fucking Russians. What are they doing here? They shouldn’t be here...
Amid so many confusing proclamations of war; so many calls for action in which action is understood as bellicose; so many flag-waving cheers for armed retaliation; I am concerned that the very real pain of those killed, wounded, and mourning is in danger of being swept away. The toppling of the towers of the World Trade Center and the breaching of the Pentagon are events whose grandiosity, played and replayed in images across the world, is such that the smallness of human life, its everyday quasi-public intimacy, finds itself hard-pressed to compete. Smallness has long been endangered...
...three items bought at Wal-Mart following Tuesday was the American flag. Nationwide, American flags have, among other things, become symbols of solidarity, defiance, rememberance. We must hope that they will not turn into symbols of repression and destruction for the millions of Muslim and Arab Americans, many of whom are purchasing and proudly displaying those flags. The Koran reads Assalam AlaykumMay peace be upon you. May it be upon...
...pray for peace” and “We will not forget you” complement an American flag taped to the wall nearby...