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When it comes to demagoguery, graphics are paramount, as some current covers of Islamic Jihad magazines from Pakistan's Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad (Center for Preaching) demonstrate. The Voice of Islam, left, is helpfully published in English, but even those not fluent in Urdu could get the gist of the magazines' tone from the 1950s B-movie graphics and the copious use of shadowy typefaces. Just in case, we have provided some translation as well...
...English-language daily Dawn, readers got the full blast: "We have chemical and nuclear weapons as a deterrent and if America used them against us, we reserve the right to use them." But that's not what was available in the daily Ausaf, which is published in Urdu, an official language of Pakistan and edited by Hamid Mir, the journalist who says he got the quotes from bin Laden at an undisclosed location near Kabul. Apparently under pressure from the Pakistani government, Mir, in his own paper, was able to print only an assertion by bin Laden that if America...
...went downstairs and moved towards my cab, the restaurant staff surrounded me to provide some sort of cover. As soon as I settled next to the driving seat, Mohibullah who was virtually hysterical, shouted at me, "Don't talk in Urdu. (My Pakistani native language). Keep quiet. I will talk to them. You don't talk. Understand? You are my responsibility. I will take you back." And then he sped...
...checkpoints that had been manned by the Taliban there now stood men in military uniform with camouflage caps rather than the shawls and black turbans that are the hallmark of the Taliban. Mohibullah turned on the radio. A female singer on a Pakistani station was singing in Urdu: "Please smile, just once." But Mohibullah and I could not manage a smile. We were too preoccupied with how we were going to get through the remaining hour of our journey...
...Pakistani," he shouted in Pashto. "What are you doing here? You a Pakistani officer." I kept replying in Urdu. They forced me to sit on a wheel barrow. I was terrified. My camera was in the pocket of my waist coat. I shuddered at what would happen if they search me and find the camera...