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...soldier's attitude toward politics springs from his training at the academy. All cadets attend lectures on governance. Arts majors take a political-science course studying Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Indian strategist Chanakya, Arab historian Ibn Khaldun and Pakistani poet Muhammad Iqbal. But the average soldier learns more in the mess hall and the boxing ring than from this tutoring in political theory. "Phhh," sneers Major General Hamid Rab Nawaz, the academy's commandant. "I never studied political science myself...
...division of the mandated area of “Palestine.” Although the entire Palestine Mandate was to have been open for Jewish settlement, the British lopped off 80 percent of it to create Transjordan after the Hashmites were expelled from Arabia by the Ibn Saud family. This map makes it clear that Jordan represented the lion’s share of historical Palestine; indeed, the majority of Jordan is still made up of Palestinian Arabs, just as the majority of Palestinian Arabs reside in Jordan. How is it, then, that those who question the Jews?...
...four others on the tapes--Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan, Khalid Ibn Muhammad Al-Juhani, Abd Al-Rahim and one as yet unidentified--had not previously appeared on America's most wanted list. Administration officials don't believe the tapes contain coded messages to al-Qaeda sleepers. Analysts say the tapes were created strictly for internal consumption or for the men's families. The men spoke of accepting their fate as martyrs, joining the war against infidels and becoming one with Allah, but they did not discuss specific targets or timing...
...first U.S. soldier to die in the anti-terror campaign when he was hit by small-arms fire in the Khost area during a mission to coordinate tribal leaders. Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar continued to elude capture, but the head of al-Qaeda's terrorist training camps, Ibn Al-Shayk al-Libi, was in the custody of U.S. Marines at the Kandahar airport...
...Moinuddin Haider, Pakistan's Interior Minister, says the border patrols have so far detained 245 foreigners, mostly Saudis and Yemenis, who are being held in high-security prisons in and near the frontier town of Kohat. "We are well geared up," he says. Last week the Pakistanis handed over Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, al-Qaeda's chief terrorist trainer, to the U.S. military in Kandahar. They also deported back to Afghanistan the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef. He is now in U.S. custody...