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May 13, 2005 | 4 Rabi al-Akhir 1426 Hijriah

From: veiled4allah veiled4allah

"honor and martyrdom"

Madeleine Bunting has an excellent article looking at suicide bombing. A highlight: Tracing the history of how suicide has been used as a weapon and as a protest through history offers up many illuminating parallels to what might motivate those...

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From: veiled4allah veiled4allah

not the way to win hearts and minds

Juan Cole: The Guardian reports that news (from Newsweek) that US soldiers desecrated the Koran--and at one point flushed pages of it down the toilet as a technique for humiliating and breaking detainees at Guantanamo--has provoked a second day of...

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From: The Clipboard The Clipboard

Iraq's Flirtation With the ICC

So when the Azzaman, an independent daily in Baghdad, reported in February that Iraq had joined the "nearly 100 countries that have so far signed the court's treaty," the Bush administration found two of its policies on an apparent collision...

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