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Why are the Shi'ites doing this? Because they're betting that if the insurgency metastasizes into a full-scale civil war, they will receive U.S. backing against the Sunnis. This point was driven home by al-Hakim's son, Ammar, in Washington last month when he called for a...
INDICTED. Four men, KEVIN JAMES, 29, LEVAR WASHINGTON, 25, GREGORY PATTERSON, 21, and HAMMAD SAMANA, 21; of a terrorist conspiracy to attack military sites, synagogues, Israeli officials and other targets in Southern California; in Santa Ana, Calif. The plot was allegedly hatched in prison by James, the leader of a...
Shalimar the Clown could also have been called "Fury", but the anger in this book is of an entirely different kind. The novel is an allegory of the rape of Kashmir, told as a story of love's betrayal and vengeance. When we first land in it, Rushdie's Kashmir...
The mullahs overrun the valley, women are ordered to wear the veil and Muslims are separated from Hindus. This Islamic brutality is reciprocated by the Indian army, which destroys villages suspected of harboring terrorists. The mullahs and the army take turns in grinding paradise into hell, and Rushdie chronicles their...
ARRESTED. MOULANA FARIDUDDIN MASUD, 60, one of Bangladesh's leading Islamic clerics; in connection with more than 430 simultaneous bomb attacks across Bangladesh on Aug. 17 that killed two people and injured 125; in Dhaka. Masud, who ran several Islamic charities, including a hospital, was taken into custody as he...