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...Taliban's core supporters - a point underscored by the fact that Mullah Omar and most of the movement's senior leadership have never been captured. Unlike the sophisticated Arab operatives of al-Qaeda for whom Afghanistan was simply another stopover in a globalized jihad, the one-eyed peasant mystic mullah is still believed to be at large somewhere on home turf. (The Pashtun heartland spans the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.) And the fact that he hasn't been found suggests a measure of support among the local population...
BIOGRAPHY A British journalist draws on interviews with Iraqi defectors and Western intelligence sources to depict Saddam's path from peasant boy to tyrant...
...viewers, "Do you remember how the Iraqi farmer dropped the American Apache with his old gun?" Saddam was calling attention to what he called Iraq's heroic resistance. He was inadvertently acknowledging that the defense of his regime had been put into the hands of a grizzled old peasant armed with a hunting rifle. So much for uniting the Arabs, for developing the first Arab A-bomb, for "burning half of Israel," for winning the Mother of All Battles, for all the grand promises that Saddam made and could never keep...
...state secret, the 33-year-old cameraman relies as much on stealth as stagecraft. For his 2002 documentary, To Live is Better Than To Die, a stark portrayal of a family destroyed by AIDS, he sneaked into the village of Wenlou in central Henan province dressed as a peasant, creeping through cornfields in the dead of night with his equipment stashed in a fertilizer bag. That was the only way he could elude police in order to film the effects of one of the mainland's biggest health scandals: the transmission of HIV to hundreds of thousands of poor farmers...
...Medieval Europe, the peasant was forbidden to question the truth of the Church. Under Communism, comrades doubting the Party were thrown in gulag labor camps. Now, citizens must recite principles of Darwinism through compulsory schooling...