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...plastic rectangles but on two legs. Al-Qaeda, says a new report by the RAND organization, depends for its future operations on its "ability to gather new recruits." In some towns of northern Pakistan, where hundreds of young men followed their religious leaders into Afghanistan like lambs to the slaughter, there is resentment toward the jihadists. But worldwide, according to analysts, al-Qaeda doesn't seem to have had trouble finding fresh blood. Notwithstanding the success of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, the RAND report argues that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were potentially an effective recruiting weapon...
...deceased Abu Nidal and terror groups such as al Qaeda, known stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons, reports from Iraq’s former bomb-maker that its scientists could be months away from producing a nuclear weapon, Hussein’s gassing of the Kurds, his wanton slaughter of Iraqi dissidents and civilians, his firing at U.S. and British planes patrolling the “no fly” zones, his agents’ attempt to assassinate former President Bush and his repeated flouting of U.N. resolutions—we are told that the Bush Administration has no right...
...prey to a scheme of the United States." Publishers of middle school textbooks, who in the past few years finally began calling the 1937 murder of up to 300,000 civilians in Nanjing a "massacre," recently succumbed to right-wing pressure and changed most editions back to calling the slaughter an "incident." Aging politicians often insist that civilians in occupied nations were actually grateful for Japan's presence, and that women dragooned into sexual servitude for imperial soldiers were willing prostitutes?assertions that make even a loonocracy like North Korea sound thoughtful when its leaders call Japan a nation...
DIED. ENOS SLAUGHTER, 86, Hall of Fame outfielder who spent his 19-year Major League Baseball career with four teams, most illustriously the St. Louis Cardinals, whom he helped win the 1946 World Series; in Durham...
...Still, he pursued his calling, traveling to China in 1938 to cover the Sino-Japanese war, back to Spain as the Republican cause was collapsing and then, as World War II raged, on to North Africa, Sicily, the Italian mainland and - most traumatically - to Omaha Beach and the slaughter of the D-Day invasion. It was in Spain that Capa took his best-known photo, which purported to show a militiaman a split second after he'd been fatally shot. Debate over its authenticity still rages. The "truth" of the photo, says Kershaw, is in its representation of a symbolic...