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According to Shrier, the biggest problem that has faced Israel in the last year has been an upsurge in Islamic fundamentalist terrorism...
...compared to other campus publications, this paper looks even better. The Perspective (bastion of bleeding heart liberalism), the Salient (mouthpiece for conservative self-righteous venom), and the Peninsula (a seething brew of libertarian, fundamentalist, and fascist viewpoints), are often either condescending, ignorant, or outright offensive on racial issues...
Nizar Halaby died in a fusillade of bullets outside his home in Beirut this morning, and Lebanon may be closer to rekindled civil war because of it. Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports that Halaby, a leader of the influential Habashi, a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim sect, "was thought to be the person most likely to become the next musti -- or highest religious leader -- of the Sunnis." The killing, by unknown assassins, is a setback for Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, whose government has been trying to shed the terrorist image Lebanon acquired during the 1975-1990 civil...
...Robert Hughes essay on Congress, America's priorities and the arts. This is an important topic worthy of serious debate. Yet, instead of debating the message, Hughes decided to attack the messengers. It is unfortunate Hughes chose to resort to name-calling: "Neanderthals," "Jurassic...[with] limbic forebrains," "insatiable Fundamentalist Christian right wing" and "Jacks-in-office" are not helpful contributions to an important discussion of our nation's priorities...
Swedish authorities detained Algerian militant Abdelkrim Deneche in Stockholm as a suspect intwo bombingsthat killed seven people in Paris this summer. Investigators, lacking hard evidence, increasingly blame the fundamentalist Armed Islamic Group (GIA), which lost four members in a French assault on an airliner that the group had hijacked last December. (The GIA has vowed to "avenge our martyrs.")Paris bureau chief Thomas Sanctonreports that authorities have other indications of possible GIA involvement: the fabrication of the bombs from empty gas cannisters is identical to techniques used by GIA guerrillas in Algeria, and an underground GIA newsletter published in Sweden...