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[Author’s note: This article was published originally on Sunday, November 30. But a surprising number of friends have told me that they missed it because they did not expect my first post-Thanksgiving article to be published until Monday, December 1. Therefore, assuming that many of you probably missed it too, I have decided to republish it today.… Read more.
The Guantanamo Bay trial of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver, was billed as the most important in the annals of international military justice since the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals over 60 years ago. Yet, with all of the media focus on the US presidential campaign (complete with this week’s surreal cameo by Paris Hilton), you can be… Read more.
Kola Boof: lost girl speaks out Kola Boof is promoting her autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl, all over TV. This Egyptian-Sudanese-American is an award-winning novelist, poet, and activist. But, unsurprisingly, her relationship with Osama Bin Laden is all anyone wants to talk about. Kola writes about it in dramatic and thrilling detail. Reading it, you might think her… Read more.
