... I encountered there. In Gaza, feelings about suicide bombing turned out to be not very different from what feelings about capital punishment have been in this country for most of the last two decades. I'm not drawing an analogy between judicial execution and terrorism. I'm merely pointing to a climate of opinion. In ... became a secret candidate for martyrdom. Now the circumstances of their lives had completely changed. The apartment, spacious by Gaza standards, had plastic grapevines running along the top of tiled walls. Everything in it looked new -- the appliances, rugs and stuffed fu...

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... may have laid the framework to becoming the international news source of the future. Although based in Qatar, they belong to no country but to Arab speaking peoples worldwide. This cross border support is the foundation to their no rules, no holds bard style of reporting. Al-Jazeera is a twenty-four hour ... Times of India says, "When Osama Bin Laden has something to say, he goes to Al-Jazeera. When Taliban want to denounce allied attacks on their country, they go to Al-Jazeera. And, Al-Jazeera is happy to oblige." By all accounts, Bin Laden and the Taliban have no financial stake in ... ...

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