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...passengers were Israeli. The crew of a nearby Armenian Airlines plane reported seeing an explosion aboard the doomed plane, before it spun down into the sea. And Russian and Ukrainian media have been reporting for some time that ethnic Tatar villages in the Crimea had been giving shelter to rebel fighters from Chechnya, and that some Tatar Islamists had even volunteered to fight in Chechnya. Russia's President Vladimir Putin immediately expressed suspicions of terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile Accident Suspected in Russian Crash | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...government has busied itself preparing a laundry list of suitable accusations and diplomatically correct labels to hurl at bin Laden and his terrorist cells. The mysterious "proof" of his guilt has been shared, we're told with Allied leaders in Europe, as well as with various Pakistani and Afghan (rebel) authorities. NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson later characterized a secret U.S. briefing as offering "clear and compelling evidence," while Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced he was "quite satisfied" the information "proves" bin Laden's involvement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is This Evidence Against Bin Laden? | 10/3/2001 | See Source »

...that cost the Achaeans countless losses?. America?s Civil War produced its share of popular compositions, from the war songs of the North (?The Battle Hymn of the Republic? and ?All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight?) to the fighting odes of the South (?Oh I?m a Good Old Rebel?). Civil War-era songs such as ?When This Cruel War Is Over?(1863) still have a melancholy resonance even today: ?Weeping, sad and lonely, hopes and fears, how vain!/ When this cruel war is over praying then to meet again/ When the summer breeze is sighing, mournfully along/ Or when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music During Wartime | 10/2/2001 | See Source »

...when the nation was literally coming apart. Of course, some of the songs favored by the South sound misguided and tragic. ?I hates the Constitution/ This great Republic too/ I hates the Freedmen's Buro/ In uniforms of blue,? go the lyrics to ?Oh I?m a Good Old Rebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music During Wartime | 10/2/2001 | See Source »

...punish the men responsible for 10 years of bloodshed. On May 26th of this year, in a promising reversal of past wrongs, the RUF released 600 children, between the ages of 6 and 10 years. old who had served as ‘soldiers’ in the rebel army. With her sons at Harvard and in boarding school, Edgar’s mother returned to Freetown and to her husband, whom she hasn’t lived with for the last five years. As Edgar puts it in his typical down-to-earth style, “I went...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester and Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Flight From Freetown | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

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