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KIM JONG-IL DEMANDS IPOD Latest Twist in Nuke Talks Raises Eyebrows, Concerns Mercurial North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il threw a monkey wrench into the six-party talks about North Korea’s nuclear program today by demanding that the other five nations give him an Apple iPod Shuffle™. In a morning session of the Beijing talks, the reclusive Kim told representatives of the United States, Russia, Japan, China and South Korea that if he did not receive an iPod by the end of the day he would test-launch a missile into the Sea of Japan. Kim’s latest demand took most of the diplomats by surprise, since many had expected North Korea to demand diplomatic recognition and a security arrangement with the United States in exchange for denuclearization, rather than a portable music device that retails for under $150. At Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, Apple CEO Steven Jobs hailed the development: “This just goes to show that everybody wants an iPod, even one of the most insane, brutal d

The CIA has recently obtained a transcript of an Al Qaeda secret planning meeting: _______________________________________________________________ A cave, somewhere deep in the Hindu Kush… ANAS: They’ll go in to the subway system here, get on separate trains going in different directions, then detonate their nail bombs simultaneously at 9am. Once they have killed and maimed dozens of innocent people, we issue our demands. Any questions? ABDULLAH: Demands? We’ve never done that before… What exactly are the demands? USAMA: We're giving Bush two weeks to withdraw completely all infidel soldiers from the Lands of the Believers, and if he doesn't agree immediately, we’ll blow up more trains. AYMAN: In London? ANAS: In London, New York, Rome, Sydney, Berlin, Tokyo, Toronto, Paris, Amsterdam… USAMA: And of course, we point out that they bear full responsibility when we slaughter their people, and that we shall not submit to blackmail! TERRORISTS: No blackmail! USAMA: They've bled

But the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate about "the West," to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. Loose talk about chickens coming home to roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage emitted by Falwell and Robertson, and exhibits about the same intellectual content. Indiscriminate murder is not a judgment, even obliquely, on the victims or their way of life, or ours. Any decent and concerned reader of this magazine could have been on one of those planes, or in one of those buildings--yes, even in the Pentagon. Does anyone suppose that an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza would have forestalled the slaughter in Manhattan? It would take a moral cretin to suggest anythi

___________________ Polygamy and Terrorism By William Tucker After almost four years of dealing with Al Qaeda, jihad, Iraq, and Muslim terrorism, it is obvious that we are up against something we have never encountered before in our history. We have fought and defeated a Nazi regime that was unprecedented in its cruelty and intent on wiping whole peoples from the earth. We fought and defeated an Imperial Japan and helped turn it into a modern nation. We fought the Korean and Vietnam Wars and saw how the portions of Asia we rescued thrived while those that fell under Communism turned into bleak totalitarian societies. But we have never fought an enemy so utterly “in love with death,” as the terrorists themselves put it, so willing to commit suicide and take the whole earth with them in pursuit of their cause. All this demands that we take a look at Muslim society to find out what makes it so different. This does not mean we should desist in our efforts to bring democracy to Iraq or