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...began raining down on northern Israel. Then, in the ensuing chaos, a number of Hizballah foot soldiers crossed the border and ambushed a two-vehicle Israeli military patrol, killing three of the soldiers and dragging two others back into Lebanon. The attack was clearly planned in advance. The militants struck at a spot obscured from a nearby watchtower, and when a tank pursued them across the border soon after, explosives planted in the ground destroyed it. The four soldiers inside are now "presumed dead," according to the Israeli military...
That statement reflected Collins' input. In 1976, during his medical residency, the serene faith of some of his mortally ill patients shocked the self-described "obnoxious atheist" into consulting a local minister, who handed him the book Mere Christianity by the great Christian popularizer and Narnia creator, C.S. Lewis. Struck by Lewis' nuts-and-bolts approach, Collins investigated faith on his own methodical terms. Finally, one morning in 1978, while hiking in the Pacific Cascades, he came upon a massive, frozen, three-stream waterfall. To him it recalled the Trinity. He writes, "I knelt in the dewy grass...
...What you have witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger." SHEHZAD TANWEER, one of the four suicide bombers who struck London on July 7, 2005, on a video recorded before the assault and aired by al-Jazeera last week on the first anniversary of the attack...
...He’s simply a cosmopolitan intellectual that represents the very best of the Iranian tradition,” Qureshi said. “He struck me as a contemplative, quiet-spoken public intellectual...
...What you have witnessed now is only the beginning of a string of attacks that will continue and become stronger." --SHEHZAD TANWEER, one of the four suicide bombers who struck London on July 7, 2005, on a video recorded before the assault and aired by al-Jazeera last week on the first anniversary of the attack...