Word: terrorized
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...Bush, this is both the beginning and the end of his case. So let's start where he does, even if it has become a cliche: 9/11 changed everything. Even the intellectual godfathers of the get-Saddam campaign admit that the terror assault showed America's enemies a new and more lethal way to fight and spotlighted how a rogue state--namely Iraq--with the resources to develop weapons of mass destruction might employ them. The abiding conviction that tyrants and terrorists would surely combine forces to attack America carried the Administration across a threshold...
...America should be doing is "engagement," a euphemism suggesting that we twist Ariel Sharon's arm. But effective diplomacy entails the twisting of all available arms, and Lieberman faults the White House for not pressuring the fatuous Europeans and deceitful Arabs "to get the Palestinian leadership to stop the terror." Indeed, the Middle East mess starts with the Arabs, with their state-fed spew of anti-Jewish hatred, with their funding of terrorism, with their unwillingness to recognize Israel's right to exist. Their intransigence has caused the hardening of Israel's heart. There was a moment last year, after...
...kickboxing match at Lumpini Stadium, shopping at Chatuchak weekend market and a longtail-boat ride to the Temple of the Dawn. Tourists get palpitations, incipient lung spots and bragging rights back home; in exchange, the smirking pilot gets a sweaty handful of baht and the chance to strike terror into visiting souls...
...handlers in the Pakistani secret service to a December 1992 meeting in Dubai between Dawood's lieutenants and Islamic terrorists to the smuggling of explosives into deserted coves along the coastline south of Bombay. What is most remarkable is the speed with which India's most devastating terror strike was assembled by a handful of amateurs guided only by improvisation and furious zeal: just eight weeks elapsed from the first phone call to the day of the bombings...
...bombers themselves. In penetrating this closed world, Zaidi ridicules the shorthand caricature of terrorists so popular nowadays: that they are "evil," "fanatic" or "mad." Instead, we get to read about ordinary men who start out with earthly motivations and none-too-resolute convictions but who ultimately come to embrace terror. One such character is Badshah Khan, an underworld foot soldier recruited to the plot and swept up in righteous determination, dutiful loyalty and terrifying excitement. He scouts targets, assesses their vulnerability and helps plant the devices. But Khan is eventually abandoned by his cohorts, left penniless and finally captured. Such...