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...Also wanted are two other men with ruthless terrorist pedigrees: a Malaysian named Zubair, who fought in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, and is believed to be responsible for surveillance and mapping of the Bali attack; and Syawal, an Indonesian man who was an instructor at a camp, located near Poso on the island of Sulawesi, the scene of Christian and Muslim fighting that has cost hundreds of lives in recent years, that intelligence officials believe was used by al-Qaeda for training recruits. Syawal, intelligence sources add, is also distinguished by his marriage to the daughter of Abdullah Sungkar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Will They Strike Next? | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...mind the broken crockery of Cubism or the elastic women of Matisse are pretty plain. These are also loving pictures, so long as you keep in mind how often one brings to a lover's interesting body the problems of estrangement, awe, fear of death, utmost tenderness and ruthless curiosity--all things he brought to Katharine's. Are they also beautiful? Absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thoroughly Modern Man | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

Apparently, dedication to any extracurricular outside of athletics lies beyond the scope of Pascavage’s condescending view of her non-athlete peers. Such an attitude dismisses passionate community service volunteers as ruthless resume-builders, master musicians as frauds without true dedication to their craft and so on. It should offend anyone who has ever loved or cared about an activity other than a sport...

Author: By Luke Smith, | Title: Let the Athletes Take a Break | 10/30/2002 | See Source »

Still, a few phones and some computer files are not sufficient to stop a ruthless enemy whose reputation among its supporters soared after the destruction of the World Trade Center. With such a display of power, whether bin Laden is alive or not is beside the point. "For the militant groups in the Islamic world, it is the ideology that counts, not a specific leader," says Hala Mustafa of the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. "The roots of fanaticism will still be there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSIDE THE JIHAD: How Al-Qaeda Got Back On The Attack | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

ISRAEL Hizballah's Henchmen Israel's military is its most honored secular institution, with a reputation for ruthless efficiency and impregnability. That almost mythic image suffered a heavy blow last week, with the revelation that the army had a spy in its senior ranks. Lieut. Colonel Omar al-Hayeb, a Bedouin Arab from a well-known tribe in northern Israel, was remanded by a Tel Aviv court on charges he traded secrets to the Lebanese fundamentalist group Hizballah for a lucrative role in the drug route across the Lebanon-Israel border. Officials said Al-Hayeb passed on maps, details about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 10/27/2002 | See Source »

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