Word: tribalized
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...much of the goodwill the U.S. built up by liberating Afghanistan from the Taliban's rule has been dissipated by mistakes made after the fighting died down. U.S. forces allowed themselves to be duped by local bandits in eastern Afghanistan who called in American air strikes on their tribal enemies, pretending that they were al-Qaeda fighters on the run. Overzealous U.S. forces wiped out a wedding party and twice hit gatherings of Karzai supporters...
...high season in Bali, but, according to a Kuta hotel employee named Ketut, this October has been unusually busy. There has never been an attack like this in Bali, he explains. There have been rare tribal disputes in the past, but nobody has ever targeted foreigners. A tragedy like this, explains Ketut, will be devastating for the tourism industry in Bali and the rest of Indonesia. "We are going into bankrupcy," said Ketut. For Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, already facing criticism for not pulling her weight in the war on terror, the attacks reveal the horrible human cost of delaying...
...warned of imminent attacks on the U.S. and its allies-was probably recorded in the past two months. "This is a way of telling people that al-Zawahiri isn't dead," says a White House aide. The U.S. believes the two may still be hiding in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas. There have also been unconfirmed reports that al-Zawahiri somehow fled to Chittagong, Bangladesh, in March. A source in the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, a Bangladeshi military intelligence agency, told Time last week that bin Laden's deputy left Bangladesh this summer, crossing its eastern border into neighboring...
...stronghold lies in the tribal band along the Afghan border. Its Baluch and Pashtun supporters are ethnically and ideologically tied to the former Taliban rulers in Afghanistan, thus their anti-Americanism. The region is where Pakistani and U.S. intelligence officers believe many al-Qaeda fighters, possibly even Osama bin Laden, may be holed up. Guns are in plentiful supply. Basha Kamal from Khana-Khel village, in the hills behind the turquoise Indus River, slaps his hip and says: "Of course I carry an automatic pistol. That doesn't mean I'm a terrorist." He adds, "But I refuse...
...Paul argued, did it come through tribal inheritance. The God of the Hebrew Bible deemed Abraham to be "righteous" years before his circumcision, he wrote, which meant that his listeners didn't need to become circumcised Jews to be Abraham's inheritors. Baptism in faith would more than suffice. Paul waffled as to whether Christianity rendered Judaism's Abrahamic Covenant null and void. But his successors assumed so. The 2nd century church father Justin Martyr wrote that far from an indication of grace, circumcision marked Jews "so that your landmight become desolate, and your cities burned," something of a self...