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May.06.2011
Her name is Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah and according to every media source she was the favorite, the youngest wife of Osama. She was shot and took a bullet in the leg for her man. Come on, she really is no different from any young girl that is paid the least amount of attention by an upperclassman in...
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May.06.2011
Word of Osama bin Laden’s death fired through social media networks before being reported by official news agencies, who rightly awaited the formal announcement. We used to get news from newspapers, poems from literary journals, and novels from bookstores. Now, all can be accessed with a flip of...
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May.06.2011
My friend Steve Hauk recently posted a nice item about Leon Panetta. Here's a column I wrote about Panetta, published in the Monterey County Herald on Wednesday:
Whether the local hero is throwing TD passes on the football field or coordinating the elimination of Public Enemy No. 1, people love...
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May.05.2011
(This piece also appears on my official webpage, A Curious Man
I had just jumped in the car on Sunday evening, at MacArthur BART in Oakland, when Elizabeth told me that she’d heard over the radio that President Obama was about to announce that Osama bin Laden was dead.
As we watched the...
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May.05.2011
Without fanfare, last January, and at the insistence of Attorney General Eric Holder, the FBI rounded up more than 100 suspects in a series of early morning raids that spanned three states: New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.
As the Associated Press reported, the suspects were all believed...
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May.05.2011
Without fanfare, last January, and at the insistence of Attorney General Eric Holder, the FBI rounded up more than 100 suspects in a series of early morning raids that spanned three states: New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.
As the Associated Press reported, the suspects were all believed...
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May.05.2011
Osama bin Laden was killed earlier this week, a result inevitably determined and irrevocably scheduled on 9/11, although there are many who insist he was on USA's radar well before the destruction of the iconic towers; he may well have been, but on that September morning, his fate was ensured. ...
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May.04.2011
I'm watching the Death-of-Bin-Laden blogs unfurl, and my mind keeps wandering away from them. Instant reactions to the news drop like petals from a dying flower as new information emerges: was Bin Laden armed? Was torture used to find his whereabouts? The whole process seems designed to calibrate...
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May.03.2011
The following is reprinted with permission from Religion Dispatches.
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It's 4:30 am and I can't sleep. Outside our bedroom window, trucks begin to move in to prepare for the neighborhood festival. I get up and work on the anthology for...
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May.03.2011
by Steven ZeitchikThe death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of a U.S. strike force makes for some captivating storytelling, and throughout Hollywood on Monday, discussions reverberated about how to turn the news into a captivating movie.
As we report in a story in Tuesday's Times, the movie...
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