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Dahal knows Nepal needs outside help. But the Maoists, who remain on the U.S. State Department's terror watch list with a reputation for vigilante violence, have yet to gain the full confidence of the international community. This holds most true for India, whose foreign policy establishment is still reeling from the overthrow of Nepal's ancien regime and the political elites it had previously patronized. Though India helped vault Dahal into the limelight by forcing Nepal's monarchy into peace talks with his rebels, certain circles in New Delhi harbor a fundamental distrust for the Maoists as India reckons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal's New PM Makes the Rounds | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...London anti-terror specialists shot Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, seven times in the head at close range after he boarded a London subway train on the morning of July 22, 2005. De Menezes, a Brazilian electrician, lived in an apartment block adjacent to a would-be terrorist who, the day before, had botched an effort to blow himself up on the London Tube. On July 22, as police continued their surveillance of the suspect's housing block, de Menezes left his apartment for work and unknowingly stepped into the middle of the manhunt. Thirty-four minutes later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inquiry Opens into London Police Shooting | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...definitive accounts of the Arab world. Some of his more recent books have examined the rising anti-Western mood in the Islamic world. Coming after 9/11, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East and The Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror seek to explain the roots of extremism. His take on these subjects has often been controversial; some scholars accuse him of being needlessly alarmist about the "clash of civilizations" - a term he coined before Samuel Huntington's book. Lewis's latest book Islam: The Religion and the People, (Wharton School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Bernard Lewis on Islam's Crisis | 9/20/2008 | See Source »

...outdoors.” The captain of the ship approached them, and Roxanna’s employers lapsed into an uneasy silence that had lasted to the present.What might the quarrel be? Neither appeared to be angry. They seemed to regard each other with a kind of helpless terror, which Roxanna optimistically interpreted as worry.She looked down at the paper in her hand:The StableFelicitous, my fate, of late, is not.I feel as though I’ve been most cruelly shot,By heartache’s arrow, so strong, and long, and hard.And now against whole ruin must...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...brazen, sophisticated attack sparked fears in counterterrorism circles that al-Qaeda is gaining ground in Yemen, a key front in the Bush Administration's war on terror. A major purpose of the attack may have been to undermine Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Salih. Yemeni officials believe it may have come in retaliation for recent raids by Yemeni security forces against al-Qaeda in which senior militant Hamza al-Quaiti was killed. Militants had also threatened more attacks if Yemeni authorities fail to free detainees. Says Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee: "Al-Qaeda and the security forces are in a serious confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Yemen, a Massacre of Americans Is Averted | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

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