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...German who grew up after World War II, I have always regarded any glorification of the military with skepticism and suspicion. Despite knowing how much Germans owe to the Allied forces that liberated us from Nazi terror, and acknowledging that the majority of Iraqis rejoice that they are rid of Saddam Hussein because of the efforts of American and coalition troops, I wish that others would not forget that an army uses force and violence. Innocent people have always suffered in wartime, no matter what the motives of the military. ECKHARD KORFF Lippborg, Germany...
...Hamburg court of charges that he helped the terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. Last week prosecutors introduced a surprise witness: a self-proclaimed Iranian intelligence agent, known as Hamid Reza Zakeri, who said Mzoudi handled logistics for the three hijackers based in Hamburg before the terror strikes. "I'm very excited," says Ulrich von Jeinsen, a lawyer representing American relatives of victims of Sept. 11, who under German law can take part in the trial. "This is severe information against Mzoudi." Others are less excited. "As far as the intelligence community is concerned, this new witness...
...Ansar is the homegrown Iraqi terror group and Zarqawi allegedly ran its operations in northern Iraq before the American forces battered its operatives during the war - though many Ansar terrorists escaped U.S. forces and later dispersed in Iraq. Intelligence sources believe that since then, Zarqawi has re-emerged in Iraq to lead forces allied to al-Qaeda in the armed resistance to the U.S. occupation. Al-Yemeni, says one source, is a "senior guy," someone with the capacity to "make stuff happen, a planner. He wasn?t conducting attacks himself, probably, but he was helping mastermind them...
...seem to be settling in quite well with the new national personality. Americans take solace in Fox News Channel’s omnipresent indication of our nation’s “terror alert” status. Patriotic citizens around the country now raise both the American flag and the orange “high alert” flag of the Department of Homeland Security. Pundits and anchormen comb through our country’s weak spots and ask the questions that need to be answered, like whether our seaports are safe from oil tankers—which could...
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