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...Bint Jbeil is all gone," said Hala Abou Alawi . "It's destroyed." Abou Alawi is a dentist assistant in Bint Jebel, a usually charming mountain town just less than 3 miles from the Israeli border. Before the war, its winding central street transformed into a bustling souk, or market, on Saturdays. Local artists read stories to schoolchildren in the community center...
...loosen up, you're in trouble." More worrisome: one of the groups claiming responsibility for the blasts said it has ties to al-Qaeda. "It is part of a bigger project that entails confronting America and Israel and, after that, nonmilitant Arab regimes," says Egyptian political analyst Hala Mustafa. If al-Qaeda is moving back into a global operational mode, it would a be a blow to the Bush Administration, says former White House deputy homeland-security adviser Richard Falkenrath, because "we'd all come to believe that we had decimated the al-Qaeda leadership." --By Daniel Kadlec. Reported...
...restated in countless ways over the centuries. The church eventually extended its concept of the sin for which Jesus died beyond Adam's disobedience to everybody's transgressions. The 16th century reformer John Calvin replaced Anselm's feudal king with a severe judge furious at a deservedly cursed creation. Hala Saad, a contemporary churchgoer in Texas, recites a milder modern version: "All I had to do was sign up for God's debt-cancellation plan--for Jesus to take my place...
Uday and Qusay Hussein are accounted for, but what about Saddam's other close relatives? It's hard to say. A butler who worked for the Iraqi leader until the regime fell says Saddam's first wife Sajida and the couple's daughters--Raghad, Rana and Hala--fled to Syria after the war started but were deported back to Iraq. Another butler, who served Uday, says the women made their way to Mosul, where Uday and Qusay died, and remain there--presumably with at least some of their combined seven children--protected by a tribal chief...
...reputation among its supporters soared after the destruction of the World Trade Center. With such a display of power, whether bin Laden is alive or not is beside the point. "For the militant groups in the Islamic world, it is the ideology that counts, not a specific leader," says Hala Mustafa of the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. "The roots of fanaticism will still be there...