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...mail that landed in many in boxes in the weeks after the attack quotes what it calls a prediction of the French astrologer’s: “In the City of God there will be a great thunder, / Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, / The third big war will begin when the big city is burning...
Dzongs are found across Bhutan. Huge fortress-like structures that combine the administrative center and principal monastery of each region, they embody the national marriage of Buddhism and politics. Non-Buddhists will find a peek into the courtyard is often all they are allowed: at Wangdue Phodrang, a village in central Bhutan, we were deterred from entering by stories of the regional administrator's fondness for whipping. In Paro, however, some high-ranking officials were happy to guide us around their temple. Inside, a sweet fog of cypress incense fought with the stench of butter lamps, which threw out flickering...
...stage of the war may have been prompted by a tidy piece of intelligence work. On Friday morning, Pakistani intelligence sources tell TIME, the Taliban eminence Mullah Mohammed Omar arrived in Kandahar, the regime's stronghold in southern Afghanistan. He had spent days holed up in a mountain fortress ducking U.S. bombs, and in the meantime his regime had been pummeled. When he got back to Kandahar, Omar fired two faithless deputies and passed the word that he would deliver the noon sermon at the Halqa Cherif mosque. The mosque houses a robe said to have belonged to the Prophet...
...Floating Fortress TIME photographer Barry Iverson spent a week shooting the men and women aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, located somewhere in the Arabian Sea (for security reasons, the Navy won't say where), as they prepared jets, weapons and themselves for the strikes against Afghanistan. time.com/enterprise...
...your story about the requirements foreign students must meet to get a visa to study in an American college [FORTRESS AMERICA, Oct. 1]: The Association of International Educators (NAFSA) has not "reversed its position" of opposing the creation of a database of all foreign students. We said we would withdraw our opposition in the spirit of national unity. But we still believe that monitoring the less than 2% of temporary visa holders who have student visas will do nothing to counter terrorism. MARLENE M. JOHNSON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND CEO NAFSA: Association of International Educators Washington