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...troubled region?has apparently done little to assuage the militants. In propaganda leaflets dropped in the South, they warned that the government cannot be trusted and that locals should not cooperate with the authorities. Now, Thailand is faced with the possibility that the insurgents are expanding their terror campaign into new parts of the country. "These militants are very provocative and getting more indiscriminate," says Sunai Phasuk, a political scientist at Bangkok's Thammasat University. "Their idea appears to be to try and trap Thaksin and the military into a cycle of violence...
...revisited Hannah last week when a loudspeaker in a nearby mosque woke her shortly before midnight, warning of another tsunami on the way. Hannah fled to higher ground, together with tens of thousands of other locals and tourists. Now, she says, after three months of trying to forget the terror of Dec. 26, "all the awful thoughts are back...
...Last October's Presidential elections were crucial. Eight million Afghans swarmed to the polls, defying Taliban threats of sabotage and terror. "It was a moral and psychological defeat for the Taliban," Olson told TIME. Karzai helped the process along, clipping the wings of regional warlords such as Ismael Khan in Herat province and Uzbek strongman Rashid Dostum, enemies of the Pashtun tribes that are the main backers of the Taliban...
...think about your dad before you go onstage? I can't say I think about him. Usually I just have terror stomach, which I know he had. I do the deep breathing and the pacing...
...system of interlocking alliances and how it made the escalation of conflict virtually inevitable. Similarly, anyone who has read Lenin’s political writings—most noticeably his schizophrenic diatribe “How to Organize Competition”—can see that the Communist terror in Russia did not come out of a vacuum; the leaders of the revolution did exactly what they said they were going to do, which was to “cleanse Russia of all sorts of dangerous insects...