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...front lines in Kashmir - the disputed territory over which Pakistan wages its long-running battle with India - claiming in letters home that he had fired weapons across the border. He later moved to Afghanistan, where he underwent training at al-Qaeda camps, learned surveillance techniques and met Osama bin Laden...
...Minutes, the film follows the quixotic quest of a hard-drinking, oft-screwing Texas Congressman (Hanks) to get funding for antiaircraft weapons so that Afghani rebels can defeat their Soviet invaders. This was back in the 1980s, before the mujahedeen had flowered into the Taliban and backed Osama bin Laden's war against the U.S. (A postscript to the movie quotes Wilson as saying, "We f---ed up the endgame...
...those with more biblical knowledge, the book can get dry after the first 100 pages or so. Gomes’s tone is overly preachy—there’s a reason most sermons aren’t 245 pages—and the work is laden with rhetoric and anecdotes that resemble the parables Gomes describes as “Jesus’ most effective teaching instruments.” These may have worked well for Jesus, but then again, his audience was generally uneducated.Gomes’s message is not revolutionary, nor is it particularly novel...
...deaf" on national security. The problem is, nobody has yet figured out the good answer for the bad question "Are human rights more important than American national security?" The right answer is that without human rights, America cannot have national security. It is not "our freedom" that Osama bin Laden hates. It is the fact that we preserve our rights here in America but deny the same freedoms to others. Every time we infringe on human rights in an effort to bolster security, we lose both. Denying human rights has always been the greater risk to security...
Behind Housman’s clean and efficient possession of the ball, the Crimson posted an astounding assist-to-turnover ratio of 17-9 in the contest. This is a far cry from the turnover-laden squads of years past...