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...both sides have displayed remarkable self-restraint. Indian Deputy Prime Minister and Hindu hard-liner, Lal Krishna Advani, cautioned the country's Parliament: "These attacks are specifically aimed at ending the normalcy we have achieved in the Valley." Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a Taliban supporter and chief of Pakistan's fundamentalist Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, was on a goodwill visit to India at the time of the attacks?and lost no time in condemning them. He added that he would encourage both governments to hold peace talks, and called all Kashmiri militants to "cease their operations." Even Zafar Akbar, a senior...
...crime isn't really Krakauer's beat--he's the author of Into Thin Air, the bestselling account of a disastrous Everest expedition--but he takes an able, earnest stab at it. It turns out that Ron and Dan weren't just plain crazy. They were members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, and Krakauer spends much of the book putting their crime in the context of the strange and violent history of the Mormon Church...
...Mohammed Omar?who ran Afghanistan's ultra-orthodox theocracy from 1995 through 2001, when the group harbored Osama bin Laden and lent eager support to al-Qaeda. While maintaining close ties to al-Qaeda, the Taliban have also forged a deepening alliance with Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his fundamentalist, vehemently anti-Western Hizb-i-Islami party, which remains potent in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan government officials, including President Hamid Karzai, and members of the U.S.-led Joint Coalition Task Force have downplayed recent attacks. Karzai tells Time that the Taliban are not regrouping: "Any internal danger is from terrorism...
...Taliban's most dangerous ally, however, appears to be the warlord Hekmatyar. He, like the Taliban leaders, is a Pashtun with a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam and a hatred for the Americans and Karzai. His guerrilla fighting skills seduced the CIA and Pakistan into giving him billions of dollars of support and arms during the Soviet occupation. In May 2002, however, the U.S. tried to kill him with a Hellfire missile strike, and coalition soldiers have launched several operations in his traditional strongholds of Nangarhar and Kunar provinces. A diplomat in Kabul believes Taliban leaders don't trust Hekmatyar, whose...
...snowy woods of central Wisconsin, "Blankets" tells the story of Craig Thompson's coming of age in the austere world of a fundamentalist Christian family. Blankets of various kinds become the book's motif, starting with the opening scene. As a boy Craig must share his bed with his younger brother Phil, causing an argument over the blankets. Their stern father thumps up the stairs and looms over them like a giant, forcing Phil to spend the night in the dreaded "cubby hole" under the stairs. The guilt that Craig feels over not protecting his brother becomes even more acute...