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...with the same uncertainty and rapidity of the wildfires that raced across the western United States in the title essay. What was originally supposed to be a book about dangerous professions and later remade into an compilation of essays has turned into a book tour on the fears and unknown variables of America’s expanding war in Afghanistan...
...that Junger’s last chapter, the most recent essay, narrates his time last year with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the leader of Afghanistan’s rebel Northern Alliance. Last year, when Junger spent a month with Massoud in the mountains of the Afghanistan, Massoud was an unknown in the western world—despite orchestrating some of the most brilliant warfare waged in the 1980s and 1990s and holding off first the Soviet Army and then the Taliban regime for years. Many people now, however, know him as the man assassinated by Al Qaeda terrorists just days...
...America is to fight this war in the name of justice then it must be willing to defend justice when American soil is not directly under siege, when the victims of terror are not investment bankers and business travels and military personnel, but the unclothed, the unfed and the unknown. And if America is to call on the peoples of the world to act in our defense then it must be willing to act in theirs...
...redemption of radical Islam. Moving on Beghal?s identification of Trabelsi as the designated bomber for the U.S. embassy attack, Belgian police raided his apartment and found automatic weapons and documents related to the assault. The search of a nearby restaurant turned up bomb-making materials. "It?s still unknown exactly how the attack was to be carried out - as a suicide bombing or planted in a truck," the French official says. "But Belgian colleagues tell us that under interrogation, Trabelsi admitted a plan to use chemicals capable of creating large clouds of toxic...
Though European police got lucky in unmasking the Beghal plotters, scores of sleepers unknown to security forces are in place, awaiting activation. And with bin Laden now breaking up his Afghan camps ahead of expected U.S. strikes, hundreds more will be working their way back to Europe and North America to join them in the weeks to come...