Word: slaughtered
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Before we get to his dislikes and disorders, his vexations as a child and his entanglements as an adult, let's poke inside Mohamed Atta's brain the night before he helped slaughter 7,000 people. "You have to remind yourself to listen and obey that night, for you will face situations that will require your obedience 100 percent," reads a letter found in Atta's luggage and in the belongings of two other hijackers. Atta would be happy to know that his evil was steadfast...
...century. We are the strongest military power in the world, but for the wrong century. Conflict is now carried out by civilians against civilians. Perpetrators belong to no state, wear no uniforms and obey no rules of war. No targets are off limits, and no citizens are exempt from slaughter. Other attacks will follow, possibly soon. Twenty-first century war has a new face...
...means "surrender," is related to the Arabic salam, or peace. When the Prophet Muhammad brought the inspired scripture known as the Koran to the Arabs in the early 7th century A.D., a major part of his mission was devoted precisely to bringing an end to the kind of mass slaughter we witnessed in New York City and Washington. Pre-Islamic Arabia was caught up in a vicious cycle of warfare, in which tribe fought tribe in a pattern of vendetta and countervendetta. Muhammad himself survived several assassination attempts, and the early Muslim community narrowly escaped extermination by the powerful city...
...worship the same God (29: 46). In words quoted by Muhammad in one of his last public sermons, God tells all human beings, "O people! We have formed you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another" (49: 13)--not to conquer, convert, subjugate, revile or slaughter but to reach out toward others with intelligence and understanding...
...remaining fellows include Michael Kraus, a member of the Dante Fascell Fellowship Board of the U.S. Deparment of State; Sally E. Merry, a professor of anthropology at Wellesley College; Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Armstrong professor of international, foreign and comparative law at Harvard Law School; Adam Taylor, co-founder of Global Justice and the Student Global AIDS Campaign; and Cheryl Welch, chair of the political science and international relations department at Simmons College...