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...didn't create much of a panic, and despite the evacuation of three Senate office buildings last week, neither did the ricin found under a mail-opening machine on Capitol Hill. Ricin is a potent enough poison , and terrorist groups from al-Qaeda to the Iraq-based Ansar al-Islam have reportedly produced it for use as a biological weapon. So, evidently, did Saddam Hussein before the first Gulf...
...Fighting a jihad against the Americans and their allies is something obligatory in our religion," says Wushyar Salah Hama Aref, 26. Until he was arrested last October by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Aref was a top commander in Ansar al-Islam, the Kurdish terror organization. "We know that the Americans have the technology and the power," he said last Saturday, when TIME was allowed into the Kurdish-run jail to see imprisoned Ansar leaders. "But our belief is stronger...
...imminent" threat. It is hard to find anyone outside the Vice President's circle of friends who still insists that an immediate, unilateral invasion was necessary. The real question for this election year is, Was going to war in Iraq the right choice in the larger struggle against radical Islam? Saddam Hussein is in jail. There may have been ancillary benefits from the American show of force: Libya has given up its nuclear ambitions; Iran may, or may not, be doing the same. But the situation on the ground in Iraq remains chaotic. The possibility of a Sunni...
...that consequence is far from arbitrary. A good fraction of the girls who would wear headscarves to school belong to the ranks of young French ethnic Arabs who do not adhere to fundamentalist Islam for cultural reasons; tragically, they feel it has more to offer them than does the French republic. Respected scholar Gilles Kepel describes the engagement of young second- and third-generation French Arabs with the Islamic faith not as the perpetuation of their family’s culture and religion—since many of their parents have given up most Muslim practices—but rather...
Erdogan became even more emotional when he referred to the November terrorist attacks on Istanbul, stressing that Islam does not promote violence...