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...rich and compelling as Junger’s prose is, the gathering of articles from Vanity Fair, Men’s Journal and Outside Magazine hardly seem a worthy sequel to his expansive Perfect Storm. What makes the book worthwhile though, are two messages for America in the wake of last month’s terrorist attacks. The first pure happenstance, the second more obvious...
...country whose people could hardly locate Afghanistan on a map a month ago, Junger has important lessons to teach, having written one of the few western accounts published about the current state of the country. If one is familiar with The Perfect Storm and Junger’s other writing, it is easy to see that his books have little to do with the often violent and harrowing situations that he covers: His writing is the story of people and their fight to live their lives, whether it be preserving a centuries-old whaling custom or trying to live amid...
...Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith appeared on Qatar's Al Jazeera network Tuesday congratulating the men who hijacked the four planes involved in the September 11th attacks, and promising a massive holy war against the U.S. "America must know that the storm of airplanes will not stop and there are thousands of young people who look forward to death like the Americans look forward to life," he said. Concerned that the terrorist organization might have used the broadcast to transmit "a message" to waiting terrorist cells, Secretary of State Colin Powell assigned analysts to examine every aspect of the transmission...
When the TV flashed the news of U.S. and British airstrikes against Afghanistan around 10 pm on Sunday night in Pakistan, it was like a storm finally breaking after a long period of tense waiting. There had been a growing sense in Pakistan late Sunday that the strikes were about to happen. UN staffers were contacted early Sunday evening by their offices and told that "should anything happen" they were expected to stay at home on Monday and not come to work. A U.S. diplomat who had invited me and some colleagues to dinner called to say that he would...
...There are some similarities to Desert Storm," Bush says, "like getting other nations to support us, convincing them that our intentions are good. We have to show the Arab countries that we are not going to disrupt them. There can be great hostility in the Arab world...