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...most recent crime the colonel is dealing with was particularly provocative. On May 14, a woman passed several Sons of Iraq checkpoints as she made her way to the front gate of an Iraqi Army patrol base. She asked to see the company's commander, Captain Wassim Abdul Hadi Saaud al-Sertani. She was a suicide bomber and when the commander arrived, she detonated her explosive vest and killed him and herself...
Barandiaran had apparently been under suspicion by Spanish counterterrorism forces for playing just such a role. During the time he was mayor of Andoain, separate ETA attacks killed two of the town's residents; Ainhoa Ozaeta, the masked woman who appeared in the video that announced the 2006 ceasefire and who was one of the others arrested in Bordeaux Tuesday night, was his deputy mayor. "They would have had plenty of reason to monitor him," says Gurruchaga. "Andoain is a place where ETA has a lot of allies. And whenever there was an attack or a robbery, you would hear...
...Khaldei evokes some of the minutiae of that epic clash. In Berlin an old woman with a cane is dwarfed in a corner of the picture by the mountainous ruins around her. A blind man sits amidst the rubble, unseeing of the immensity of the destruction all around. In the wooden city of Murmansk, back in 1941, razed in a single day by 350,000 incendiary bombs, a solitary babushka, carrying a trunk of her belongings past the forest of upright stilts and posts that are the city's charred remains, asks Khaldei, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself...
...There are two layers to this sweeping though uneven and too long tale. The first is Meera's Austenian struggle as a caged woman seeking self-realization in a chauvinistic world. Hers is a moving story in theory, as she fights against the reign of her petty tyrant of a father, against Dev's alcoholism and neglect, and later, when Dev dies, against advances from her oily brother-in-law Arya. But she's also an irritating egoist and self-styled tragedienne who blames everyone else for her problems while selfishly, and in one case quite perversely, smothering teenage...
This is, apparently, too much for some conservatives. They hear "whining" from a woman preaching a "Gospel of Misery," about everything from her student loans to the high cost of piano lessons. When she describes the steadily deteriorating conditions during her lifetime, they counter with the stats: rising home ownership, falling poverty, a quadrupling of the population with a college degree, an explosion of science and technology and opportunity. When she says that "before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls," conservative blogger and radio star Hugh Hewitt levels his warning: "Whenever someone from...