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...within this context of failure that the networks to which bin Laden had lent his name and image began a strategy of substitution. The strategy involved focusing on purely terrorist activities by small groups and striking highly symbolic targets, especially American interests in the Arabian peninsula: the 1995 car bombing of a U.S.-run training facility for the Saudi National Guard in Riyadh, which killed five Americans; the destruction of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998; and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000. The enormous media impact of these operations was designed to demonstrate...
...that support for the jihadist violence targeting U.S. interests on the Arabian peninsula came to be redirected toward Israel. After the Oslo peace accords broke down and the second intifadeh led to spiraling violence beginning in September 2000, colossal frustration began to build in the occupied territories--and it only increased as Israel continued to demonstrate its overwhelming military advantage over the Palestinians. That encouraged the rise of movements that consider terrorism a legitimate means of resisting occupation. And indeed, suicide bombings evoke great sympathy throughout the Middle East, where their perpetrators are described as martyrs and where telethons have...
SOUTH KOREA The Wrath of Rusa Amighty typhoon swept across South Korea killing at least 184 people and leaving a trail of devastation. Typhoon Rusa was the worst to hit the Korean peninsula in 40 years: winds reached 204 km/h and 89 cm of rain fell. Thousands of people were made homeless. At least 26,000 homes were flooded in Kangwon province. The total damage caused by Rusa is estimated at $3.5 billion, four times that of 1999's Olga. A government official said the cleanup would need twice as much money as is left for disaster relief in state...
Antarctic warming Since 1945 the Antarctic Peninsula has experienced a warming of about 4.5[degrees]F (2.5[degrees]C). The annual melt season has increased by 2 to 3 weeks in just the past 20 years...
...Haverford College professor Michael Sells, "was chosen in the wake of 9/11." But the book omits the verses in which the 9/11 terrorists might have sought to ground their actions. Subtitled The Early Revelations, Sells' book features scripture enunciated by Muhammad before the Prophet's takeover of the Arabian Peninsula, and so omits lines arguably forged in combat, like 9:5, the Sword Verse: "Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them." From such verses emerged the Muslim concept of holy war. Noting their absence, Family Policy Network head Joe Glover says, "Sells whitewashes...