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Letting him go was a fatal error. Upon returning to Pakistan's lawless Waziristan region, Mesud rallied tribesmen and former Taliban fighters to hit back at the U.S. and its ally, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. On Oct. 9, as Mesud later told the press, he ordered his men to kidnap...
The term used so often to praise Naipaul's journalism is that it is "prophetic"?that he saw in the 1960s and '70s, before anyone else did, that a series of crises was about to hit Africa and India; then in the 1980s and '90s he saw that trouble was...
A similarly limited vision marks Naipaul's two books on Islam?Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981) and Beyond Belief (1998). His thesis is provocative: Islam is a manifestation of Arab civilization that has spread through Arab conquest. Wherever it has spread in Asia?Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia?it...
(2 of 3) The vast majority of Chechens oppose Basayev's murderous tactics, even while they share his goal of independence from Russia. But the fact that Basayev can roam around Vedeno with impunity and seemingly unleash strikes at will in Russia perfectly illustrates how the Chechen conflict has degenerated...
Low whistles sound across the scruffy courtyard as the residents of Grozny doze through a sticky, mosquito-filled night. The men guarding this apartment building are signaling to one another that all is clear. They're not police or regular soldiers but lookouts for a Wahhabi Jamaat, an urban guerrilla...