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...deaths at the World Trade Center left us with indelible images of mass destruction, but the victims of 9/11 were essentially anonymous. Even today we don't know much about most of them. About Pearl, however, we quickly came to know a great deal: a principled and hard-driving journalist, loving husband, happily expectant father. He was, by all accounts, a good man. Perhaps too good for his own good, in that he innocently failed to take minimal precautions when he set forth to interview a terrorist he thought might have new information about Richard Reid, the infamous "shoe bomber...
...What follows is my dream agenda, the issues I will use, as a voter and as a journalist, to judge how seriously the various presidential hopefuls should be taken in the election to come. There is only one issue area-foreign policy and national security-that I considered to be an absolute, drop-dead threshold test. The next President will have to be far more knowledgeable about the rest of the world than the current one was when he came to office. He (or she) will also have to recognize that the most important global threats we're facing-terrorism...
...subservient new economic oligarchs--has come to dominate policymaking under Putin's control. This new élite embraces a strident nationalism as a substitute for communist ideology while engaging in thinly veiled acts of violence against political dissenters. Putin almost sneeringly dismissed the murder of a leading Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, who exposed crimes against the Chechens. Similarly, troubling British evidence of Russian involvement in the London murder of an outspoken FSB defector produced little more than official Russian ridicule. All the while, Russia's mass media are facing ever growing political restrictions...
...West, including the U.S., has remained largely silent. The Bush Administration was indifferent to the slaughter in Chechnya, and after 9/11 it even tacitly accepted Putin's claim that in crushing the Chechens, he was serving as a volunteer in Bush's global "war on terror." The killing of journalist Politkovskaya and Putin's dismissal of its import similarly failed to temper the affectations of personal camaraderie between the leaders in the White House and the Kremlin. For that matter, neither has the general antidemocratic regression in Russia's political life...
...attackers arrived in the middle of the night as she lay sleeping next to her 20-month-old son. The gunmen who fatally shot Afghan journalist and radio-station owner Zakia Zaki seven times--sparing her son and other children--acted just days after a female newsreader at a TV station was shot and killed for reasons that remain unclear. One of the few female reporters to criticize the Taliban, Zaki ran the U.S.-funded Radio Peace, launched in 2001 after the fall of the Taliban. In response to Zaki's murder, officials condemned the "terror," and police began...