Smiling Mass Murderer Robert Bales It is hard to get people to care about Afghanistan and, despite fighting a massive war there, hard to get it in the news. Most of the thousands of civilians who have died have gone largely uncovered and become a statistic at best. So when
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Drive-by Planet: Merah killings: more about psychiatric issues than jihad?
To describe the Mohamed Merah killings as the act of a jihadi-on-a-mission is the type of simplistic narrative that short circuits more in-depth discussion about Merah’s motivations. There are questions about his psychological state that raise questions about whether he was acting as the “mujaheddin” he claimed to be. Merah
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