Unleashing the Beast

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Israel was concerned about the repercussions within Israel and abroad among the Muslim community. However, Jews who have built settlements in areas near the Gaza strip are interested in the pork bullets, or any other types of ammunition. After hearing this, someone suggested that America could have saved millions of dollars in the war in Afghanistan if the U.S. military would have flown thousands of pigs into the mountains where the al Qaeda fighters were hiding, and allowed the animals to run wild through the caves and across the mountains. Of course, such a wild strategy would have brought the wrath of the Islamic world against the United States and would have unsettled the people of Afghanistan. By the way, the November 1, 2002 Wall Street Journal carried this item by columnist James Taranto: According to the Moskovski Komsomol newspaper, Russian security forces have decided to bury the terrorists from last's week's hostage siege wrapped in pig's skin. The aim is to deter potential Islamic terrorists from future attacks. L AND OF THE A SSASSINS Despite the foolishness of the theory, the belief in 72 virgins is a powerful motivation for a poor, illiterate young man with no hope for the future. The desire to become a human bomb can be traced to a concept rooted among the