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...attacks on America after revealing last week that they had received credible threats of Sept. 11 strikes on foreign and domestic targets within Pakistan. The warning was not a surprise, given the number of terrorist attacks that Afghanistan's neighbor has suffered this year. In February, U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl was murdered; in March, five people including two Americans were killed in an Islamabad church; in April, President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escaped assassination; in May, 11 French citizens died in a bus bombing; in June, an attack outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi killed 12 Pakistanis; and in August...
Hollywood after Sept. 11 seems to look a lot like Hollywood last summer, notwithstanding a few shots of the Twin Towers edited out of credit sequences. So where are the Sept. 11 movies? The Guys, an indie film about a journalist and a mourning fire fighter, is in the works, but big-time filmmakers and TV executives still seem cautious about bringing the tragedy to the screen, worried they will be accused of bad taste...
...long been a principal hub for militants, armed Sunni extremist movements had enjoyed the complicity of successive governments. But General Pervez Musharraf has decided to smash these movements in exchange for strong backing by the U.S. It will be a long, hard haul. As the killings of American journalist Daniel Pearl and 11 French engineers in Karachi demonstrate, General Musharraf is not yet out of the woods--especially given Pakistan's endemic state of cold war with India over Kashmir. But one year after Sept. 11, Southwest Asia has neither exploded nor risen up at the instigation of jihadists...
...right wing, impatiently calling for the ball. The player who has it looks up, thinks abou dribbling for the briefest of moments and then realizes that when the best women's soccer player in the world is open, you'd have to be an idiot - or a journalist - not to kick the ball to her. So I do. She disappears down the field to attack the goal, something she does regularly for the New York Power of the WUSA, the women's professional soccer league, and the U.S. women's national team...
...academic friends think of me as a journalist; my journalist friends think of me as an academic,” Thomson told a group of Nieman alumni in 1972, his first year at the foundation...