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...Sept. 11, 2001, not happened. As Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has rightly observed, any attempt to sustain truthful speech was lost as soon as the word war was used to describe the events of Sept. 11. What happened on that day was not war; it was murder. In his rush to assure the American people that everything could return to normal, President Bush declared a "war on terrorism." Oddly, knowing we are at war makes many Americans feel safe. Thus the metaphorical wars against drugs and crime are now stretched beyond all sense to become...
CONVICTED. MOUNIR EL-MOTASSADEQ, 28, Moroccan student; of 3,066 counts of accessory to murder in the aiding of al-Qaeda members planning the Sept. 11 attacks, in part by wiring money transfers to one of the 9/11 pilots; in Hamburg, Germany. The first to be convicted in the attacks, he received the maximum allowable sentence of 15 years in prison, which he appealed. Though he admitted attending a training camp, he claimed he was an unwitting friend of the plotters...
...crowd of about 200 gathers outside the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court to hear the scuttlebutt on Vietnam's spiciest trial in memory. Nam Cam, Vietnam's most powerful and vicious gangster, is in the dock on seven charges, including murder, along with at least 154 co-accused. He will probably face a firing squad. Suddenly, police throw seven women into a jeep and drive them away. "A threat to the peace," one policeman explains. The women's crime: they were trying to sell fans and cold drinks to the spectators...
...very different character. "I look at my mother with horrified fascination," he soliloquizes. "Material ambition is the compulsion that drives her. Is it possible, I think to myself, that she does not know how ugly a beast she clasps so close to her breast?" After the Japanese rape and murder one of the daughters, the family starts to drift apart. Lakshmi grows into a formidable matriarch, towering over her scattered, resentful clan, eventually becoming the rice mother of the title: "The Giver of Life ? In Bali her spirit lives in effigies made out of sheaves of rice...
...where most of the narcotics are produced, Thaksin has pledged no lenience for those supplying drugs to Thailand's 3 million users. Police insist that the bodies piling up are bad guys killed by other bad guys?specifically, drug lords silencing potential informers. The Thai term for such a murder is ka tat torn, or killing to cut the link...