Rappers have all sorts of motives, ethical and unethical, to remind the outside world about their frustration, and in the commercial realm of popular culture, no motives are entirely unmixed.
A rapper can identify with his or her community, hoping to shock listeners into paying attention to real troubles, and simultaneously realize that contention and notoriety and sensationalism will publicize and sell recordings. Instead, they shout and snarl about an escalating desperation that makes all sides seek scapegoats, raising friction and shutting off the possibility of dialogue. Amid the gunplay and vengeance fantasies, the raps make one thing clear.
How Global Elites Forsake Their Countrymen Those in power see people at the bottom as aliens whose bizarre emotions they must try to manage. This is about distance, and detachment, and a kind of historic decoupling between the top and the bottom in the West that did not, in more moderate recent times, exist. Recently I spoke with an acquaintance of Angela Merkel , the German chancellor, and the conversation quickly turned, as conversations about Ms.
Merkel now always do, to her decisions on immigration. Last summer when Europe was engulfed with increasing waves of migrants and refugees from Muslim countries, Ms. Merkel, moving unilaterally, announced that Germany would take in an astounding , Naturally this was taken as an invitation, and more than a million came. The result has been widespread public furor over crime, cultural dissimilation and fears of terrorism. From such a sturdy, grounded character as Ms. Merkel the decision was puzzling—uncharacteristically romantic about people, how they live their lives, and history itself, which is more charnel house than settlement house.
But, the acquaintance said, he believed the chancellor was operating in pursuit of ideals. As the daughter of a Lutheran minister, someone who grew up in East Germany, Ms. Merkel would have natural sympathy for those who feel marginalized and displaced. The historical stain of Nazism, the murder and abuse of the minority, will be followed by the moral triumph of open arms toward the dispossessed. But there was a fundamental problem with the decision that you can see rippling now throughout the West.
Merkel had put the entire burden of a huge cultural change not on herself and those like her but on regular people who live closer to the edge, who do not have the resources to meet the burden, who have no particular protection or money or connections. Merkel, her cabinet and government, the media and cultural apparatus that lauded her decision were not in the least affected by it and likely never would be.
Nothing in their lives will get worse. They were left to struggle, not gradually and over the years but suddenly and in an air of ongoing crisis that shows no signs of ending—because nobody cares about them enough to stop it. The powerful show no particular sign of worrying about any of this. The larger point is that this is something we are seeing all over, the top detaching itself from the bottom, feeling little loyalty to it or affiliation with it. On Wall Street, where they used to make statesmen, they now barely make citizens.
CEOs are consumed with short-term thinking, stock prices, quarterly profits. They adhere to higher, more abstract, more global values. In Manhattan, my little island off the continent, I see the children of the global business elite marry each other and settle in London or New York or Mumbai. They send their children to the same schools and are alert to all class markers. And those elites, of Mumbai and Manhattan, do not often identify with, or see a connection to or an obligation toward, the rough, struggling people who live at the bottom in their countries.
In fact, they fear them, and often devise ways, when home, of not having their wealth and worldly success fully noticed. Affluence detaches, power adds distance to experience. It is very much a feature of our age. But it is odd that our elites have abandoned or are abandoning the idea that they belong to a country, that they have ties that bring responsibilities, that they should feel loyalty to their people or, at the very least, a grounded respect. The suburban counties of Fairfax, Loudoun and Arlington—among the wealthiest in the nation, and home to high concentrations of those who create, and populate, government and the media—have received only nine refugees.
Some of it is sheer and clever self-protection. At least on some level they can take care of their own. On ne saurait trop le rappeler: Que cela vous inspire-t-il? El Chapo and the Secret History of the Heroin Crisis If you wonder why America is in the grips of a heroin epidemic that kills two hundred people a week, take a hard look at the legalization of pot, which destroyed the profits of the Mexican cartels. How did they respond to a major loss in revenue?
Like any company, they created an irresistible new product and flooded the market. Don Winslow Esquire Aug. My wife and I were two days into a cross-country drive from our home in California, and I wanted to clean up before we went to a sports bar across the parking lot to grab something to eat. Looking at the phone, I recognized the number and felt my heart drop. The woman was a close friend.
Her twenty-three-year-old son had struggled with heroin addiction for several years. I knew the young man. He was supposed to have called me that day to discuss getting back into school. It was his mother on the phone, sobbing, barely able to stammer out the words that I already knew she was going to say. He died on the sidewalk. His mother and I were on the phone for quite a while. Mostly I listened, because what was there to say? Then I got into the shower and cried. I thought I was inured to it, hardened to insensitivity by the numbing sameness of this never-ending tragedy.
I thought I was beyond tears. The jefe of the Sinaloa Cartel, the largest drug trafficker in the world. I resist calling him El Chapo because the diminutive makes him seem like some sort of cute Disney dwarf who whistles while he works rather than the mass murderer he is. I was talking to cops and convicts, drug traffickers and addicts, gangbangers and their families. I was in the prisons and on the streets, in the archives and the courts, on the border and across it. Over the next ten years, he went to war against the other traffickers.
Last summer I went on a book tour for my novel The Cartel. At every stop on that tour, I met people who had lost a loved one to drug-related violence in Mexico or to a drug overdose here in the U. I called her from outside a bookstore in a Los Angeles mall and then went in to talk about the damn novel. The heroin epidemic was caused by the legalization of marijuana.
We wanted legal weed, and for the most part, we got it. Four states have legalized it outright, others have decriminalized it, and in many jurisdictions police refuse to enforce the laws that are on the books, creating a de facto street legalization. Not for the Sinaloa Cartel, which by the time Colorado passed Amendment 64 in had become the dominant cartel in Mexico. In a single year, the cartel suffered a 40 percent drop in marijuana sales, representing billions of dollars.
Mexican marijuana became an almost worthless product. Once-vast fields in Durango now lie fallow. They had to make up those profits somewhere. An increasing number of Americans were addicted to prescription opioids such as Oxycontin. And their addiction was expensive. One capsule of Oxy might sell on the street for thirty dollars, and an addict might need ten hits a day. Well, shit, they thought. We have some of the best poppy fields in the world. The Sinaloa Cartel decided to undercut the pharmaceutical companies. They had been selling a product that was about 46 percent pure, now they improved it to 90 percent.
Their third move was classic market economics—they dropped the price. More of a better product for less money: At the same time, American drug and law-enforcement officials, concerned about the dramatic surge in overdose deaths from pharmaceutical opioids , from to , cracked down on both legal and illegal distribution, opening the door for Mexican heroin, which sold for five to ten bucks a dose. But pill users were not accustomed to the potency of this new heroin. Even heroin addicts were taken by surprise.
As a result, overdose deaths have skyrocketed, more than doubling from to More people—47,—died from drug overdoses in than in any other year in American history. Perhaps the most famous of these, Philip Seymour Hoffman, died on February 2, , right at the height of the epidemic. When journalists called to get my comment, I had a one-word answer: Both were killers and torturers. Historically, the Sinaloa Cartel has been the least violent of the Mexican drug-trafficking organizations.
Many journalists and writers, myself among them, believe that the Mexican government eventually supported the Sinaloa Cartel during the worst years of the drug war in an attempt to establish some modicum of order. The numbers back this theory—the Sinaloa Cartel, while by far the largest group, makes up only 12 percent of the thousands of police and military arrests and killings of narcos. The Sinaloa Cartel had simply purchased elements of the Mexican government on the local, state, and federal levels. Zambada in particular was the political connection between the cartel and the Mexican government and business powers.
That, coupled with the fact that the cartels control somewhere between 8 and 12 percent of the Mexican economy, gave the Sinaloans enormous power and influence. With billions of dollars in drug profits invested in legitimate business, the economy of Mexico is simply dependent on the drug trade.
On September 26, , forty-three students from the Ayotzinapa teachers college went missing in Iguala, Mexico, a town three hours south of Mexico City. International outrage and mass protests forced the government to launch a cover-up—er, investigation, which eventually determined that Mexican police took the students off four buses they had commandeered to travel to a protest in Mexico City and turned them over to an up-and-coming drug-trafficking organization with the vainglorious name of Guerreros Unidos United Warriors.
The students were taken to a dump on the outskirts of the nearest town. Fifteen died of suffocation on the drive there. The rest were interrogated and then killed, their bodies burned with gasoline and old tires. Okay, so they had their police turn them over to…narcos? The Guerreros Unidos narcos who murdered the students were a faction loyal to BLO who only reluctantly gave their fealty to the Sinaloans after being defeated in the war.
Los Rojos, the other insurgent group fighting for Guerrero, also has scores to settle, both with Guerreros Unidos and the Sinaloans. That Guerreros Unidos felt free to perpetrate this massacre is deeply problematic for the future of a peaceful Mexico. Steve McQueen escapes on motorcycles. He was thinking about buying the Chelsea Football Club. He went out the front door. He grew up poor, harvesting opium in the fields when he was eight years old.
He started selling his own cocaine at age fifteen. All of this is true. He gave money to the poor. He built schools, clinics, churches. He was good to his mother. He had escaped before. The cover story that year was that he went out in a laundry cart, but insiders allege he actually went off the roof in a helicopter. The son has disappeared from any U. I gave the same explanation to the media over and over again: Even its name suggests that it considers itself something different, a new breed of narco ready to take over and correct the failures of the previous generation.
The frankly brilliant leadership that brought it to prominence is dead or graying. At the time, their major target was the rival Zetas, and El Mencho carried out the massacre of thirty-five of them in Veracruz, then another thirty-two a month later. In March , lugging assault rifles and grenade launchers, CJNG gunmen rolled into a town and killed five police officers. Two weeks later, they ambushed a police convoy and killed fifteen officers.
The next day, they murdered the police chief of another town. In April , they shot down a military helicopter with a rocket launcher. Now they are taking on the Sinaloa Cartel in Baja, threatening the stability of the border region. Just as this mess was heating up, a new drug—actually an old drug—entered the scene. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is thirty to fifty times as strong as heroin.
Fentanyl is so powerful that the DEA warns police that they can be injured just by touching it, and it can be taken as a pill brand names: Duragesic, Actiq, and Fentora , a spray, snorted, shot, used as a transdermal patch, mixed with heroin, you name it. Prince died from an overdose of fentanyl; as many as seven hundred Americans overdosed on the drug last year.
The straight-A student had shot a dose of fentanyl-laced heroin. She was sixteen years old.
Photos on her obituary page show a smiling girl with her cheerleading squad. In New Orleans, The Times-Picayune reported that fentanyl deaths exceeded the number of murders for the first month of In Connecticut, fentanyl-related deaths increased by percent between and and are expected to rise another 77 percent in Well, not territory for cultivation—you still have to control access to smuggling turf, hence the renewed violence in Baja, where the murder rate has tripled.
No wonder the DEA estimates that the importation of fentanyl from Mexico is up by 65 percent from Those who survive become more addicted. The combination of lab-produced illegal fentanyl and the fracturing of the Sinaloa Cartel is a catastrophe for law enforcement and American society as a whole but an absolute boon for the narcos seeking to supplant the old order. Splinter groups such as CJNG can easily use the enormous profit potential of fentanyl to fund their rebellions, and those same profits will encourage them toward violence to control the smuggling routes.
ISIS is waning in Iraq largely because it can no longer pay its fighters. Fentanyl assures the new narcos that they will not have that problem. As a result, there will not be three groups seeking to fill that gap, there will be dozens. On the American side, the rise of splinter groups makes it all the harder for law enforcement to track and intercept the drug.
At one point he threatened to have Donald Trump whacked. The deal the cartel made with the Mexican government probably went something like this: In the interim came the squalid burlesque involving Sean Penn and Kate del Castillo. His texts to del Castillo are pathetic: You are the best thing in the world. Del Castillo plays him. No one ever has. Then del Castillo told the lawyer she wanted to bring Sean Penn along. If she needs to bring more people, bring them. Their meeting took place on October 2, Marine snipers have said that they had him in their sights but were ordered not to fire, as our hero had a little girl in his arms as a shield.
On January 8, , he was captured in Los Mochis. All the authorities had to do was follow the monkey. It was a monkey. Whether it was the monkey or the soap-opera star or American cell-phone intercepts, the deal was in place, and the Mexican marines went in shooting. A few hours later you had one of the most powerful men in the world popping up out of a sewer lid in the middle of a street like some sort of narco whack-a-mole game.
Two cops picked him up and then realized—holy shit—what they had on their hands and were so scared they actually turned him over rather than negotiate a Get out of Jail for a Million card. The ability to hide production unlike marijuana or poppy fields and the anonymity of communicating on social media will create anarchy. The era of the cartel might be coming to an end.
Some Mexican legal experts I spoke to said that it will be at least two years, if it happens at all.
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He might push for it now rather than face the threat of an assisted suicide in a Mexican cell. Just like we won when Hussein literally reached the end of his rope. The Los Angeles Times estimates that two thirds of Mexican drug lords have been either killed or imprisoned. Drugs are more plentiful, more potent, and cheaper than ever. Deaths from overdoses are at an all-time high. Violence in Mexico, once declining, is starting to rise again. Just last week, I looked at photographs of the bodies of four people stuffed into a car trunk in Tijuana.
The bodies showed signs of torture. Gang violence is on the rise in every major American city, most notably Chicago and New York, and the cowardly lions in Congress will do exactly shit about either the drugs or the guns that fuel and enable the killings and deaths—more than ISIS ever dreamed of. Seems like old times. There will be more phone calls and more overdoses. Someone will replace El Chapo, just as he replaced his predecessors. Our justice system is a machine fueled by hundreds of thousands of arrests, trials, and imprisonments.
As long as the U. Four days after that, an year-old man shot dead nine people in a Munich shopping mall. Two days later, a year-old man blew himself up outside a music festival in Ansbach, in southern Germany. That same day, a year-old Syrian refugee hacked a woman to death in Reutlingen, near Stuttgart, also in Germany. Two days after that, two young men stormed a church in St. Last week, one person was killed when a man with a knife went on the rampage in Central London. It is not that Europe has suddenly become susceptible to terrorist attacks. The Global Terrorism Database shows that in Western Europe, deaths from terrorism have decreased since the early s.
In the past, groups employing terrorism, such as the Irish Republican Army or the Palestine Liberation Organization, were driven by specific political aims: They have little or no explicit political aim but are driven by a visceral hatred of the West. Of course, in the mind of the perpetrators, there is always a relationship; they are waging a righteous war against the West, which they see as an almost mythical, all-encompassing monster.
That is why a jihadist act is rarely linked to a political demand but is seen rather as an existential struggle to cut the monster down, in which almost any act becomes acceptable. Whatever one thinks of the activities of groups like the I. It is the arbitrariness of jihadist violence and its disregard for moral bounds that make it terrifying. What defines jihadist violence today is not righteous anger or political fury but a sense of inchoate, often personal, rage.
Such rage is not uniquely Islamist. When a gunman of Iranian origin went berserk in a Munich shopping mall last month, it was immediately assumed that he was an Islamist terrorist. The man, Ali David Sonboly, might have been a terrorist, but he was no Islamist. He was apparently a mentally disturbed young man proud of sharing his birthday with Hitler and obsessed with mass shootings and in particular with Anders Breivik, the Norwegian neo-Nazi who killed 77 people in Sonboly is not unique in being a non-Islamist killer driven by rage. A year earlier, Dylann Roof, a year-old American obsessed with white supremacist ideas, shot dead nine African-American worshipers in a church in Charleston, S.
Last month, Micah Xavier Johnson, an African-American Army veteran, fatally shot five police officers in Dallas, apparently in revenge for police shootings of black people. Neither the attack in London nor the one near Stuttgart was politically driven; both seem rather the actions of mentally disturbed individuals. Some people, however, refused to believe that they were not jihadist attacks, warning darkly of a conspiracy to hide the truth.
This may be irrational, but it also reflects the shifting character of public violence. In the past, the distinction between political violence and sociopathic rage was relatively clear. There seems today almost a continuum between ideological violence, disjointed fury and some degree of sociopathy or mental illness. What constitutes ideological violence has decayed; instead, amorphous rage has become a persistent feature of public life. One reason is the breakdown of social and moral boundaries that once acted as firewalls against such behavior.
Western societies have become more socially atomized and more riven by identity politics. The influence of institutions from the church to labor unions that once helped socialize individuals and inculcate them with a sense of obligation to others has declined. Progressive movements that gave social grievance a political form have faded. Instead, the new oppositional movements are often rooted in religious or ethnic identity and take sectarian or separatist forms. It is not so much the acts of violence themselves as the seeming fragility of our social and moral orders that makes contemporary terrorism so threatening.
In my last post , I discussed how Palestinian culture encourages suicidal youngsters to kill by offering a simple bargain: Murder a Jew, and you instantly become a hero. While the West has long turned a blind eye to this behavior, its refusal to look reality in the face is now coming back to haunt it. For today, the Islamic State is making the very same tempting offer to distraught Muslims in Western countries—murder a Westerner, and you can instantly become a hero instead of a failure. Nor is it any accident that the Islamic State is cultivating such people.
As with many other terrorist techniques pioneered by the Palestinians, ISIS has copied this one precisely because it proved successful—and not just as a means of recruiting assailants. This tactic also serves two other important purposes. In reality, Islamic State is quite open about its aims: It wants to destroy the West and establish a global Islamic caliphate.
Indeed, being open about its goals is part of how it attracts new recruits, just as Palestinian organizations attract support by boasting of their efforts to destroy the Jewish state. But at the same time, both the Palestinians and ISIS would prefer that the West not take their goals too seriously since, if it did, it might stop supporting the Palestinians or actually get serious about destroying ISIS. The real issue, they tell themselves, is mental health or social alienation. Second, this tactic helps divide the West and turn it against itself, because it reinforces another existing tendency of many well-meaning Westerners—blaming the victim for having driven the attacker to such a dreadful deed.
A classic example of this tendency emerged the day after deadly attacks killed people at the Bataclan concert hall and other venues around Paris last November. There are those who live here in alienation, and we are all to blame for this alienation. Some of the others blamed French or American foreign policy. Some Westerners, like the young Parisians interviewed by Pfeffer, have so internalized this attitude that they simply transfer it to their own countries; asserting that their society, too, must be to blame for the attacks against it. Others, like Malik, perform a kind of inversion: Terror can never be defeated until Westerners recognizes the crucial role played by this glorification of murder.
The picturesque area is best known as a hide-away for Clooney and a multitude of other Hollywood A-listers includ Brad Pitt, wife Angelina Jolie, and pop superstar Madonna. But a clamp-down by Switzerland on illegal immigrants entering the country from Italy threatens to turn this chic resort into a frontier town overrun by the homeless and desperate. Restaurant owner Maria Grazia told MailOnline: We [Italy] should not have to deal with these people on our own.
Now they make us — me, my family and other Italian families — pay for them. Housewife Federica, 55, said: They are not poor hungry refugees but they are big and strong. There are simply too many of them. Tour guide Denise, 67, added: Chauffeur Santi, 26, said: It is a complex situation. Financial consultant Emilio, 52, said: Clooney spends up to four months a year as his lake-side room Villa Oleandra which he bought in , officially putting the up-market destination on the international map. Co-star Brad Pitt and his wife Angelina Jolie are frequent house guests.
Matt Bellamy, frontman of the band Muse, who has his own villa along the shore, often pops in. However those who work and live in the area fear the area is being permanently damaged. Simona, 27, who works in a shop, said: They are already all over the town. I really hope the situation will not get any worse. Already they sleep in the park. No one will want to come here. Belgian ex-pat Nico said: Europe has to work together to solve this problem.
Italy cannot take on the responsibility on its own. The lake-side town, just a few miles from the main Italy-Switzerland border, is already home to hundreds of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with more arriving every day. Plans to set up a purpose-built migrant camp on the outskirts of Como had to be scrapped following bad-tempered protests from locals. Instead immigrants, who have registered a claim for asylum in Italy, are housed in up to hostels throughout the town. They also receive a Euro a-month subsistence allowance while the demand is processed.
Others — recent arrivals to the town and those whose asylum applications have been turned down — sleep in makeshift camps and under bridges. Africans sleep in the parks and North Africans chatter on their mobile phones. Ellen and Klaus from Dortmund, Germany, said: This will help Germany. We [Germany] cannot save the world on our own. Already we have taken in so many thousands of refugees. It only takes a few to cause problems but this was serious. Others have called for European countries to act together to solve the migrant crisis. Student Miriam 24 said: Every country is looking for itself now, that is what I think.
But we have to work together to solve this problem with refugees. Tourist Arab Israeli Maher said: Europe is meant to be a place where you can travel without borders. This should not be just for people from Europe but for everyone from whatever country. Music superstar Madonna, fashion house empress Dontella Versace and millionaire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson are among his many high-rolling neighbours.
Banking heir James Rothchild proposed to hotel heiress Nicky Hilton on a boat on the mile lake in the shadow of the Swiss mountains. Meanwhile African migrants at one hostel have told MailOnline how they were forced to leave Italy because their asylum applications are turned down. If their demand is rejected they are no longer eligible to the Euro 75 per month subsistence allowance and are evicted from the hostel. Ossas, 39, from Nigeria, said: That is why we try to go to other countries. Others explained reasons why they risked had their lives to cross the Mediterranean a seek a new life in Europe.
Dumbuya, 23, a teacher from Mali, said: I had to leave my country because of the war. I escaped and made my way to the coast. I just want to start a new life. Lorry driver Lucky Obera, 29, fled his home in Nigeria after receiving death threats. Then his family tried to kill me. I had to escape. Idris, 23, from Senegal, fled when Islamist rebels tried to force him to become a fighter. I made my way to Libya and got on a boat.
But the smugglers made get on boat. We were in the sea for four days. Some 30 people died on the journey. A ces tristement fameux jeux de Berlin il y a exactement 80 ans …. Cela fit une belle jambe au second: Erinnerungen , paru en Et dans la capitale, la destruction de pans entiers de quartiers historiques au nom des jeux?
Berlin, Cologne, Francfort et Nuremberg. Le conseil municipal de Barcelone souhaite cependant que le temps soit beau pour accueillir ces messieurs. On repousse la date au 25 avril. Tout allait donc pour le mieux. Quand est-il trop tard? Mahoney, ancien magistrat catholique. Nancy, 60 ans, est la plus jeune des quatre enfants de Marty Glickman. Le reste de sa vie est moins connu. Ils ont eu un fils, Harry. Le massacre de Munich a eu lieu les 5 et 6 septembre Jeux olympiques de Berlin La situation est ubuesque. Bach et Vladimir Poutine entretiennent de bonnes relations. JO — Amsalem: Que cela veut-il dire?
Je ne comprends pas. On ne peut rien faire de plus! On ne pourra pas rester seuls longtemps. Pour Nice comme pour les autres attentats depuis ceux de Charlie hebdo …. Chris Suellentrop, du magazine en ligne Slate. Dans son ouvrage A Culture of Conspiracy: Elle y retourne un mois plus tard. En juin , McKinney continue sa descente aux enfers.
Inside Job ou Mossad Job? Comme le remarque Hamza, la conclusion du rapport laisse sonjeur: Il est actuellement en prison au Liban. Bush comme fusible ou paratonnerre. America made me do it. Has capability to target U. Justin Raimondo, The Terror Enigma: We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. Hamza, Le Grand Tabou, ch. Mais pour certains, il y a quelque chose qui cloche…. Mais alors qui est cet homme?
Un homonyme, tout simplement. Christian Estrosi serait-il en train de verser dans le complotisme? Le mythe des 4 Juifs absents du World Trade Center. Pendant tout ce temps, depuis le 11 septembre , en proche banlieue parisienne, Martine Saada pleure son fils Thierry, 26 ans.
Le chiffre de 4 Juifs est totalement imaginaire. Ils sont nombreux, entre trois et quatre cents: Son opinion est faite et elle importe plus que les faits. But a New Jersey homemaker saw something that morning that prompted an investigation into five young Israelis and their possible connection to Israeli intelligence. Maria, who asked us not to use her last name, had a view of the World Trade Center from her New Jersey apartment building. She remembers a neighbor calling her shortly after the first plane hit the towers.
She grabbed her binoculars and watched the destruction unfolding in lower Manhattan. But as she watched the disaster, something else caught her eye. Maria says she saw three young men kneeling on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of her apartment building. The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. She found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police.
Before long, the FBI was also on the scene, and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van. The plate number was traced to a van owned by a company called Urban Moving. A police officer pulled the van over, finding five men, between 22 and 27 years old, in the vehicle. The men were taken out of the van at gunpoint and handcuffed by police. The arresting officers said they saw a lot that aroused their suspicion about the men. Another was carrying two foreign passports. A box cutter was found in the van. But perhaps the biggest surprise for the officers came when the five men identified themselves as Israeli citizens.
The Palestinians are the problem. But when FBI agents tried to interview him again a few days later, he was gone. Cell phones were lying around; office phones were still connected; and the property of dozens of clients remained in the warehouse. The owner had also cleared out of his New Jersey home, put it up for sale and returned with his family to Israel. But Gordon insisted that his clients were just five young men who had come to America for a vacation, ended up working for a moving company, and were taking pictures of the event.
The five Israelis were held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, ostensibly for overstaying their tourist visas and working in the United States illegally. Two weeks after their arrest, an immigration judge ordered them to be deported. The five men were held in detention for more than two months. Some of them were placed in solitary confinement for 40 days, and some of them were given as many as seven lie-detector tests.
Since their arrest, plenty of speculation has swirled about the case, and what the five men were doing that morning. According to Cannistraro, many people in the U. Under this scenario, the alleged spying operation was not aimed against the United States, but at penetrating or monitoring radical fund-raising and support networks in Muslim communities like Paterson, N. For the FBI, deciphering the truth from the five Israelis proved to be difficult. One of them, Paul Kurzberg, refused to take a lie-detector test for 10 weeks — then failed it, according to his lawyer.
Another of his lawyers told us Kurzberg had been reluctant to take the test because he had once worked for Israeli intelligence in another country. Sources say the Israelis were targeting these fund-raising networks because they were thought to be channeling money to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, groups that are responsible for most of the suicide bombings in Israel. Mark Regev, the spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, goes even further, asserting the issue was never even discussed with U.
Sources also said that even if the men were spies, there is no evidence to conclude they had advance knowledge of the terrorist attacks on Sept. But no one has been able to find a good explanation for why they may have been smiling with the towers of the World Trade Center burning in the background. Both the lawyers for the young men and the Israeli Embassy chalk it up to immature conduct.
Said one of the men, denying that they were laughing or happy on the morning of Sept. Our purpose was to document the event. Officials said they knew who these people were and important biographical details about many of them but declined to provide their names or nationalities. Seperately, government officials disclosed that at least two people believed to be associates of Mr. Acting swiftly today, investigators obtained warrants and searched businesses and homes in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Florida. They prepared biographies of each identified member of the hijack teams and began tracing the recent movements of the men.
Attorney General John Ashcroft said that each flight was seized by three to six hijackers who boarded as passengers, then, with knives and boxcutters, overwhelmed the crew. Officials said the hijackings featured many elements of previous operations sponsored by Mr. Investigators were focusing on possible confederates in Boston, metropolitan Washington and Union City, N.
Ashcroft said that the hijack teams included pilots who had been trained in the United States, at least two of them at a commercial flight school in Florida. Officials said that a breakthrough came when a witness alerted the authorities to a rental car parked at Logan International Airport in Boston.
The vehicle yielded an Arabic-language flight manual and other documents that contained a name on the passenger list of one of the flights. Also from the car search, officials said, investigators found names of other suspects. Separately, officials said a group of about five men were now under investigation in Union City, suspected of assisting the hijackers. In addition, the officials said the men had apparently set up cameras near the Hudson River and fixed them on the World Trade Center.
They photographed the attacks and were said to have congratulated each other afterward, officials said. Investigators were reviewing the activities of Mr. A senior federal official said that American intelligence had recently identified several people believed to be linked to Mr. After a check following that notification, immigration officials responded that at least two of those identified people were already in the United States, the official said.
Another official said that one passenger aboard American Flight 77, which left from Dulles International Airport and struck the Pentagon, had been placed on the list after entering the country in June through Los Angeles. It was unclear whether the man, who traveled using a Saudi passport, was one of the bin Laden associates cited in the report.
Officials said that each of the four hijacking teams had a leader but worked independently, though the teams appeared to be aware that their actions were being closely coordinated with the other groups. At least one team entered the United States via Canada and made its way to Boston, where the flights of the two aircraft that struck the World Trade Center originated. Each team was aided by confederates in Newark, Boston and Virginia, who were responsible for logistical support, including money, rental cars, credit cards and lodging, law enforcement officials said today.
In addition to the flights from Boston that struck the trade center and the one from Dulles which crashed into the Pentagon, a fourth flight, departing from Newark International Airport, crashed in a field in southwestern Pennsylvania. Officials also said the teams were coordinated by one supervising commander who has not been identified, but who apparently helped select the flights and targets and orchestrated the attacks to occur at roughly the same time. The whereabouts of the commander are unknown.
Mueller III, the director of the F. As of tonight, several people, whom the authorities declined to identify, had been detained on immigration violations and were being questioned. In Massachusetts, law enforcement officials said they were investigating whether several hijackers crossed the border from Canada and flew from Portland, Me. At Logan Airport, F. A witness reported the car to authorities, recalling two men having an argument next to the car on Tuesday morning. In Maine, a spokesman for Gov.
At the request of the F. Dekkers said that both men attended his flight school from July until November for training on single- and multi-engine small jets. Dekkers said they completed the course and graduated to training for larger jets, but he did not know where they conducted that training. The school has conducted flight training for 20 years. Dekkers said that thousands of students from around the world attend it. The network said that the pair carried Saudi passports. The police in Coral Springs, Fla.
Police officers in Venice, Fla. He is cooperating with investigators. Bill Speer for The New York Times ; A car with Virginia license plates was towed yesterday from a parking garage at Logan International Airport in Boston after investigators found documents that they said included a flight manual written in Arabic. Three men who celebrated as the Twin Towers crumbled are facing deportation, The Post has learned.
Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion. After grilling the men and searching the van in vain for explosives, the FBI turned the men over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for deportation. This is referring to another article, though. We browsed the New York Times archive and believe this is what Fox were talking about:. September 13, New York Times. Appui de taille qui leur avait permis de franchir le Rubicon.
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You know, the essence of bobo life is people who consider themselves sort of artistic or writers or intellectuals but find themselves in the world of making money, in the world of commerce. And so I certainly am in that. You know, I consider myself a writer, and I live for ideas and things like that. Car elle a la trouille de dire les choses. A lire Rue Jean-Pierre-Timbaud. France is right to ban the burkini Gavin Mortimer. The Spectator 25 August De quoi le burkini est-il le nom?
Ibtihaj Muhammad In , a public swimming pool in Emerainville excluded a burkini-wearing woman, on the grounds that she violated pool rules by wearing street clothes. Financial institutions nationwide have worked to deter more conventional robberies, reportedly with some success, by implementing dress codes that ban hats, hoods, and sunglasses, but Islamists have fought restrictions on headgear.
When disputes arose several years ago over women being asked to remove headscarves or be served in alternate areas, CAIR characteristically demanded more sensitive policies and issued dubious calls for federal probes. In addition, though numerous states, including Pennsylvania, have civil rights laws that are more expansive than the federal version, the various requirements to accommodate religious practices of customers or employees are not absolute and typically must be balanced against the hardships imposed on others.
Ian Buruma is known to a large audience for his witty and profound studies of Asia, Germany and England. Both authors had in common a friendship with, and a strong admiration for, Isaiah Berlin. Indeed, insofar as the comparison with fascism can be made, it can be derived from some of the very origins and authors that inspired fascism itself.
Whatever else they are, al Qaeda and its ilk are revolutionary anti-Western political movements, and Buruma and Margalit show us that the bogeyman of the West who stalks their thinking is the same one who has haunted the thoughts of many other revolutionary groups, going back to the early nineteenth century. In this genealogy of the components of the anti-Western worldview, the same oppositions appear again and again: It is truly modern, aimed against American imperialism, capitalism, etc. In other words, they occupy the same space that the proletarian left had thirty years ago, that Action Directe had twenty years ago.
It partakes henceforth of the internal history of the West. The most frightening, certainly the most effective, adherents of bin Ladenism are those who are culturally and intellectually most like us. The process of Westernization liberates a Muslim from the customary sanctions and loyalties that normally corralled the dark side of the human soul.
Reuel Marc Gerecht Wherever it occurs, Occidentalism is fed by a sense of humiliation, of defeat. It is a war against a particular idea of the West — a bourgeois society addicted to money, creature comforts, sex, animal lusts, self-interest, and security — which is neither new nor unique to Islamist extremism. Aurel Kolnai, the great Hungarian scholar, wrote a book in the s about fascist ideology in Austria and Germany. He called it War Against the West.
He, too, was an admirer of German ideas on blood and soil. Clearly, the idea of the West as a malign force is not some Eastern or Middle Eastern idea, but has deep roots in European soil. Defining it in historical terms is not a simple matter. Occidentalism was part of the counter-Enlightenment, to be sure, but also of the reaction against industrialization. Some Marxists have been attracted to it, but so, of course, have their enemies on the far right. Occidentalism is a revolt against rationalism the cold, mechanical West, the machine civilization and secularism, but also against individualism.
European colonialism provoked Occidentalism, and so does global capitalism today.
But one can speak of Occidentalism only when the revolt against the West becomes a form of pure destruction, when the West is depicted as less than human, when rebellion means murder. Wherever it occurs, Occidentalism is fed by a sense of humiliation, of defeat. It has been true of the Russians, who have often slipped into the role of inferior upstarts, stuck in the outer reaches of Asia and Europe. But nothing matches the sense of failure and humiliation that afflicts the Arab world, a once glorious civilization left behind in every respect by the post-Enlightenment West.
Humiliation can easily turn into a cult of the pure and the authentic. Among the most resented attributes of the hated Occident are its claims to universalism. Christianity is a universalist faith, but so is the Enlightenment belief in reason. Napoleon was a universalist who believed in a common civil code for all his conquered subjects. The conviction that the United States represents universal values and has the God-given duty to spread democracy in the benighted world belongs to the same universalist tradition. Some of these values may indeed be universal.
One would like to think that all people could benefit from democracy or the use of reason. The Code Napoleon brought many benefits. But when universal solutions are imposed by force, or when people feel threatened or humiliated or unable to compete with the powers that promote such solutions, that is when we see the dangerous retreat into dreams of purity. Not all dreams of local authenticity and cultural uniqueness are noxious, or even wrong. As Isaiah Berlin also pointed out, the crooked timber of humanity cannot be forcibly straightened along universal standards with impunity.
The experiments on the human soul by Communism showed how bloody universalist dreams can be. And the poetic romanticism of 19th-century German idealists was often a welcome antidote to the dogmatic rationalism that came with the Enlightenment. It is when purity or authenticity, of faith or race, leads to purges of the supposedly inauthentic, of the allegedly impure, that mass murder begins. The fact that anti-Americanism, anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, and a general hostility to the West often overlap is surely no coincidence.
Both Bolshevism and capitalism are universalist systems in the sense that they do not recognize national, racial, or cultural borders. To be sure, Jews had sound reasons to be attracted to such notions as equality before the law, secular politics, and internationalism, whether of a socialist or capitalist stamp. Exclusivity, whether racial, religious, or nationalist, is never good for minorities.
Only in the Middle East have Jews brought their own form of exclusivity and nationalism. But Zionism came from the West. The idea, however, that Jews are a people without a soul, mimics with no creative powers, is much older than the founding of the State of Israel. It was one of the most common anti-Semitic slurs employed by Richard Wagner. He was neither the first to do so, nor very original in this respect. Karl Marx, himself the grandson of a rabbi, called the Jews greedy parasites, whose souls were made of money.
The same kind of thing was often said by 19th-century Europeans about the British. Calculation — the accounting of money, interests, scientific evidence, and so on — is regarded as soulless. A partir de 13 ans. Un voyage magique pour apprendre les couleurs. A partir de 11 ans. Mais que se passe-t-il dans la ruche? Mais heureusement, Superpleurnicheuse transforme ses larme en torrents hyper puissants. Format 19,5 x 19,8 cm. Pour les ans. Au milieu des jouets, il remarqua une danseuse, qui se tenait gracieusement sur une seule jambe.
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