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...wasn't Azhar's first time in a Pakistani cell. The onetime religion teacher has been in and out of detention since he returned to his native land after India released him. Within weeks, he was in Karachi delivering fanatical speeches and exhorting several thousand armed supporters to destroy India and the U.S. Azhar joined hands with a hard-line Sunni sectarian group and broke away from Harkat-ul-Mujahideen to found the even more fanatical Jaish-e-Muhammad. His new group was the first to favor suicide attacks in India. It has been responsible for grenade and car-bomb...
With over 700,000 pieces in its archives and 14,000 books in its collections, the museum receives tens of thousand visitors annually...
...There never was a nobler reason to miss Christmas. A few thousand of you are making 250 million stateside holiday seasons a little safer, a little happier at the end of a year in which feeling safe and happy in America has maybe never been harder. I figure you know how lucky that makes you, to be a soldier of democracy when - and where - the soldiers of democracy are needed most...
Such visions are not new. Omar's and Osama's are just as expansive, just as eschatological, and yet no more crazy than Hitler's dream of the Thousand-Year Reich or Napoleon's of dominion over all Europe. The Taliban and al-Qaeda, like Nazi Germany and revolutionary France, represent not just political parties or power seekers; they also represent movements. And a movement carries with it an idea, an ideology, a vision for the future...
...legislators of America, no longer had anything to say to us. Yet it took a late-night comic to voice, movingly and indelibly, how we felt. "We're told [the terrorists] were zealots fueled by religious fervor," said the subdued but resilient host. "If you live to be a thousand years old, will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddam sense?" And just as important, he--and his counterparts at The Daily Show, South Park and Late Night with Conan O'Brien--gradually came back from comedy's self-imposed mourning period to show that topical...