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Hoffman, who has studied terrorism of all stripes, say it's not just Islamic extremism that attracts middle-class adherents. "You look at every kind of terrorism over the past century, and you'll find that the majority of the people who participated were not poor or ignorant but well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most Domestic 'Jihadists' Are Educated, Well-Off | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

Camara hardly inspired much hope. In a documentary on news network France24, the 35-year-old soldier was keen to show off his bedside literature: a copy of the self-help book The Power of Positive Thinking. The hallway of his barracks is hung with a clumsy oil painting of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Leader Is Shot, and Guinea Again Faces Chaos | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

Italian police have identified Massimo Tartaglia, 42, as the alleged attacker. Tartaglia's father told Italy's Sky News 24 that his son had a long history of mental illness and was not a political activist. Still, one could hardly describe the act as "isolated." The political climate in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Berlusconi Attack: Will Italy's Leader Gain Sympathy? | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

The battle over Khomeini's legacy, which slowly began in the Islamic Republic months after his death in 1989, is now front and center in Iran's turbulent political environment. And many in the opposition worry that the government may now use the poster-tearing incident to crack down harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayatullah Khomeini Returns to Haunt Iranian Politics | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

For over a week, a heavy police presence has remained outside of the main campus of the University of Tehran, in the center of the Iranian capital. Intense green-clad opposition protests occurred at universities in most major Iranian cities on Students Day, Dec. 7. Yet unlike the demonstrations in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ayatullah Khomeini Returns to Haunt Iranian Politics | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

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