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...Times of India questioned the assumption that combining bombing with food aid would avoid alienating ordinary Afghans from America. And the fact that the bombing has not thus far yielded much by way of success against terrorism leads the writer to ask whether Americans remember General Omar Bradley's Senate testimony on General MacArthur's proposal to carry the Korean war into China: "The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy...
...cross their backs. Markets and shops were open and well-stocked and the roadside kiosks were teeming with fresh pomegranates, for which Kandahar is famous. But there were few people. Bombing has been heavy here, forcing residents to either hole up or flee. The large middle-class neighborhood where Omar had his residence and headquarters looked and felt like a ghost town. The streets were empty. All the houses were locked, some with metal chains. "Anybody who can afford to is leaving," said an attendant at a roadside food kiosk. "The people you find here are have-nots or those...
...bright, cool day last week, I paid a local cabbie to take me to a Taliban military station and ammunition dump on the outskirts of Kandahar, the spiritual capital of the Taliban movement and, until the U.S. bombings began, the headquarters of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Midway there, we heard a series of small explosions followed by three or four loud blasts. A few thousand meters to our left, on the edges of the cantonment, the ground was spitting up dust and smoke, clouding...
Since the death in July of Faisal Husseini, the revered Palestinian figurehead of East Jerusalem, Nusseibeh has gradually assumed that leadership role. The scion of a family that came to Jerusalem with the Caliph Omar 1,300 years ago, Nusseibeh, 52, stands out among the city?s remaining political leaders. He carries intellectual heft as the head of Al-Quds University and wields political clout as the organizer of Jerusalem?s 1987-93 intifadeh, which helped spur Israeli leaders to negotiate with the Palestinians. Nusseibeh is using his position to push a dovish line at a time when extremists have...
...measure of Nusseibeh?s desire for compromise and coexistence that after the terrorist attacks against the U.S., he showed up at a sparsely attended Muslim-Christian prayer service for the victims at the Dominican Church in East Jerusalem. You might call it a family custom - each day since Omar?s time, a Nusseibeh has unlocked the heavy doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the spot where most Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected; at night, a Nusseibeh is entrusted with locking them, safely and securely. It will take all the rationality of this Nusseibeh to ensure...