Word: tabooed
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...effect - and that is scary. No one knows if the Pearl video will do more to rally the terrorists or us, whether seeing bodies falling from the towers will numb people or combat complacency. The Pearl video is the Zapruder film of terrorism, footage that will rightly carry a taboo and not many will want to see. But it would be hubris to decide that because I wish I had never seen it, you never should - that I can?t trust you to watch it for the right reasons or to draw the right lessons. If Daniel Pearl were here...
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...South Korean production com-pany's movie about the hit squad ordered to kill Kim Il Sung. (Filming will start this August.) Hewing closely to the original story, the movie will expose a part of history that most Koreans know little about. Under past military governments, it was taboo to mention the spy operations, says producer Jonathan Kim: "We were taught we didn't do stuff like that, only the North did. Nobody has talked about...
...terror cells operate in the shadows and base themselves in the Strip's crowded urban areas and refugee camps - Gaza City is one of the world's most densely populated cities. Even though Israeli military strategists believe Israel reestablished its deterrent capacity during "Defensive Shield" by breaking the previous taboo on sending troops into Palestinian cities and refugee camps, doing the same in Gaza raises the specter of civilian casualties - and also Israeli losses - far in excess of those seen in Jenin...
...Those were powerful charms, but now is the time for subtler stuff. Bush is dealing with, literally, ancient history, where key words are taboo, some names are forbidden, and there are layers upon layers of deep tribal symbolism. Every time he speaks, Bush has to be mindful of the need to preach hope to Israelis and Palestinians, cajole moderate Arabs, warn rogue states, reassure European allies and point a finger at would-be terrorists. It's a huge piece of multitasking for a man who is best at doing one thing at a time...