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Part of the manual that hijacker's carried on September 11, 2001 is analyzed for literary devices and philosophical and religious references meant to push a terrorist to martyrdom. The authors are surprised at the manual's support for killing innocents, an action that is forbidden by the Muslim religion.

The Iraqi National Congress (INC) may be criticized for its faults, but it is the only opposition group that has properly recognized the diversity of the people in Iraq. The INC is observed to represent a positive new element in Iraqi politics.

Aziz Salih Ahmad is the name on an index card measuring 3 x 6 inches that first came into my possession in the form of a fax in the summer [...]

Totalitarian Art: In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy, and the People's Republic of China. 2nd ed. By Igor Golomstock. Overlook Press, 2011, 420 pp. $40.00. Earlier this [...]

Byline: Kanan Makiya Decades later, the author goes back to find love--but no victory. I returned to Baghdad the week after Saddam's monument in Firdos Square fell. The last time [...]

The article presents information on the book "Cruelty and Silence," by Eqbal Ahmad. The are the worst of times in Middle Eastern history he concedes and never before has the region experienced such moral bankruptcy. "Cruelty and Silence," was written to illustrate this bankruptcy. The book was written by an Arab who grew up in the Middle East and who identifies with it. Whatever the historical and political origins of the contemporary malaise of the Arab world, and however pernicious anti-Arab sentiments inside the West may still remain, nothing is more urgent for a new generation of Arabs than to learn how to acknowledge the truth about the state of their world, and to take responsibility for changing it.

Rape as an act of conquest and subjugation of whole societies, involving deliberate national humiliation as a means of suppression and social control, has often accompanied warfare and social breakdown. It seems, for instance, to have become widespread among some paramilitary organizations in the former Yugoslavia since the summer of 1992. A half-century earlier, in the so-called rape of Nanking, a defenseless Chinese city occupied by the Japanese Army in 1937, it is estimated that 20,000 cases of rape occurred during the first month of occupation.

Focuses on the author's visit to Iraq after the collapse of the Saddam Hussein regime. Mention of the Ur conference where postwar political issues were discussed by Iraqis; Concern about the different agendas the United States has for Iraq and the development of power among dangerous groups in Iraq; Example of how Iraqis view the U.S. in light of its failure to provide food and water; Suggestion for a role for the Free Iraqi Forces in promoting civil authority in postwar Iraq; Lack of humanitarian aid because areas are not considered safe enough for agencies to begin operations; Details of the Ur conference and lack of division between the internals, or those who remained in Iraq during the reign of Saddam, and the exiles; Optimism for rebuilding Iraq.

Aziz Salih Ahmad is the name on the index card measuring 3 x 6 inches that first came into my possession in the form of a fax in the summer [...]

Profiles Iraq's Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani as one of the 100 most influential people of 2005. Role of Sistani as a moral voice in Iraq; Influence of Sistani in the creation of an elected body to choose representatives to draft Iraq's constitution; Report that Sistani urged Iraqis to vote in the elections.