The mind of the suicide bomber
James Joll published his book The Anarchists
almost half a century before the first suicide bombing in the Middle
East. But his description of the indiscriminate violence of some of
the anarchists of the 19th century fits the calibrated callousness
of suicide bombers, especially of the Iraqi kind.
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There’s no unwinnable war:
Only a mission to crush terrorism
Prasad Gunewardene
It is a known fact that the Tamils living
outside the LTTE held areas dissent the LTTE. This was amply
demonstrated during the liberation of the East. Hundreds of innocent
Tamils held hostage crossed borders without fear when the East was
being liberated. This is even witnessed today in some parts of the
Wanni.
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The silence of space
One aspect of the novel The Sentinel that
probably hurt the film 2001 is its silence. Right to the end, that
movie stalked him. When British science-fiction writer Arthur C.
Clarke died last Tuesday at the age of 90,
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