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Three days before, according to McCullough, Khalik had been among several Afghans caught in the middle of a Taliban attack on a U.S. battalion's foot patrols, on the road between the Helmand villages of Bagrabat and Hazarapas. "My men were walking on the road," he told Haji Assidullah and his fellow elder Jon Mohammed. "The car with these men [the detainees] sped up, drove right at them, didn't stop, almost hit two of my men, then the car behind that one stopped. Three men got out and started firing at my men. Two others on the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a 'Loyalty Oath' Ensure the Allegiance of Afghans? | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

Furthermore, a Society of Arab Students film screening and student panel aimed at dispelling stereotypes of Arab-Americans was postponed in light of the incident at Foot Hood. Yet no satisfactory justification has been given for the specific rationale, thus raising suspicion and confusion about the objective of our event. The decision implies the culpability and invites the rebuke of our community. Worse yet, the need for our event was made ironically explicit in administrators’ explanation that they had consulted, instead, with the Harvard Islamic Society, thus conflating disparate religious and ethnic communities. In fact, not only...

Author: By Sa'ed A. Atshan, Nadia A. O. Gaber, and Rimal A. Kacem | Title: Guilty by Association | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...problem. By most accounts, Osama bin Laden founded his organization sometime between 1988 and 1990. The U.S., in part, helped create this loathsome band itself by funding the mujahedin, who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s and provided much of the training for bin Laden's foot soldiers. But our friendly freedom fighters turned into foes. In 1992 al-Qaeda bombed a hotel in Yemen, hoping to kill American Marines bound for Somalia. Then came the first World Trade Center bombing, in 1993. Three years later, the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia killed 19 U.S. Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

While Pforzheimer wooed students with buckets of steaming chili and cowbells, Mather House stole the show by sporting a 25-foot fabric Mather tower look-alike, which was held up by three helium balloons...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tailgate Rages Forth At Yale | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams started their season off on the right foot this weekend at the Garret Penn St. Open. In a tournament designed to shake off the offseason cobwebs, three Crimson fencers medaled in the tournament...

Author: By Melissa Schellberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Three Medal in Penn St. Open To Kick Off Season | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

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