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Read "Dearborn's Muslims Fear a Fort Hood Backlash...
...barely old enough to have grown a beard. This all-powerful vizier, named Tayab Agha, was 25. The Kandahar police chief is the same age, and I've heard that he roars around in a brand new Hi-Lux with a Metallica sticker on the hood. (He got his job a few years back pulling Mullah Omar out of the rubble after truck bomb exploded outside his house.) Maybe now, when his Islamic caliphate is collapsing around him, and his big buddy, Osama bin Laden, has crawled deep underground, Mullah Omar doesn't trust anyone within his ranks whose zealotry...
...turn to the Osama bin Laden brand, and it's rising and growing. Yes, he's responsible for the death of thousands of people, but from the view of the Islamic streets, he's an Islamic Robin Hood who's standing up to the U.S. and fighting for traditional Muslim values. Terrorists are in the PR and propaganda business. Their product is a kind of noxious publicity - they are about the sizzle not the steak. And they've been succeeding. Around the Third World, bin Laden t-shirts and posters are doing a brisk business. You don't see many...
...Robin Hood uses the same approach that made its founders rich. Target charities must meet their goals effectively, cost-efficiently and repeatedly or risk losing funding. Says Saltzman, 39, the lone public-policy wonk in the original bunch (he formerly worked in New York's public schools): "We were pioneers in applying due diligence and measuring outcomes." Now they have to keep the trail open for others to follow...
...masks that it claims will filter 95% of all microbes in the air, including anthrax spores. Their use is voluntary, and they must fit snugly against the skin (no beards or stray locks of hair). Perhaps even more effective, but probably too expensive for the Postal Service, is a hood and battery-powered filter combination originally designed for medical personnel working with drug-resistant-tuberculosis patients...