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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
Through much of October, Vice President Dick Cheney was out of public view, supposedly staying at an unspecified secure location. On 29 October, when Attorney General Ashcroft called for all Americans to be on highest alert, that secure location was a duck blind at a hunting club in upstate New York. Yes, while American forces were shooting in Afghanistan, Cheney was shooting ducks and pheasants in Dutchess County. Source: The New Yorker, 19 November 2001.

In a Rancid Jail, the Warlords of Kabul Await Death: The Northern Alliance can be just as cruel as the Taliban (Chris Stephen, London Observer).
Al-Qaeda's Trail of Terror: The taliban left damning evidence behind in Kabul (5 different reporters, London Observer).
Christian Leader Condemns Islam: Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and friend of the President, has damned over a billion Muslims (Jim Avila, MSNBC.com).
Politics in the Name of the Prophet: The West has confused and simplified the many kinds of political Islam (Éric Rouleau, Le Monde-Diplomatique).
Blasting Our Way to Peace: Justice, not victory, was supposed to be the rationale for our actions in Arghanistan (George Monbiot, The Guardian).
Saudis and Americans: Friends in Need: Don't bet on the American-Saudi relationship being in trouble (Matt Silverstein, The Nation).
Ashcroft's Odd Targets: Why is John Ashcroft more worried about terminally ill Oregonians than terrorists (Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe)?

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