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Contributors
Yuri Kozyrev /
Jamie Tarabay /
Keith Richburg /
Rod Nordland /
Rémy Ourdan /
Mort Rosenblum /
Jeff Danziger /
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Up Close, It’s a Different Story /
Saad Qasim refused to leave his home. Nothing and no one could push him to abandon it. It was all he had in the world, planted firmly in Amriya, in Baghdad’s west. His parents lived next door, with his brother’s family on the other side. It isn’t that grand, an average [...]
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Lost in the Shadow of Iraq /
A conference I attended in Bali the first week of May brought together more than a hundred journalists from around the world, where we were supposed to be finding common ground.
The idea for the annual talk-fest grew out of controversy: A group of Danish newspapers had published what were deemed offensive cartoons of the Prophet [...]
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Reality in Eye-Rack: It Only Gets Worse /
So what’s it like over there?
Ask me that question from a comfortable vantage point of conscientious concern or ardent but shallow interest, and I’ll look at you from behind hooded eyes, angry or cowering inside, and give you not what you want to hear but some bone you can share with the pack, something to [...]
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America vs. Al Qaeda: A Foe’s Best Fried /
Sultan, the Afghan, waited five weeks for this moment at his observation post on the Shomali Plains between the Panjshir Valley and Kabul. He knew that al Qaeda jihadis, in the name of Allah the merciful, had smashed airplanes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. He was first [...]
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A Sampling: From Beijing to Buenos Aires, Lost Faith in an Uglier America /
“America always has excuses for its crimes,” a 19-year-old student in Beijing said when asked why he ranked the United States fifth in the likely lineup of world powers a decade from now – behind China, the European Union, Russia, and India.
Another Chinese student, age 20, put America at the top of the list, but [...]
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