One, of course, is Sept. 11, a Tuesday this year, as it was in 2001, when Al Qaeda terrorists in four hijacked planes killed more than 3,000 Americans.
In 1984 Ravindra Mhatre, an official at the Indian consulate in Birmingham, was kidnapped and killed by terrorists in one of the neighbourhoods where police were active this week.
They are occasioned not by what terrorists in four airliners did to us, but by what we have done in the decade since.
Her office, working with police and F.B.I. investigators on the elite Joint Terrorist Task Force, has won convictions of more than two dozen terrorists in five major trials.
A10 Tamil Rebels Want Democracy Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels, banned as terrorists in five countries, said they would stop recruiting children as guerrillas and want to participate in democracy.
In under a month, Baghdad launched a vicious assault on a Sunni protest camp, resulting in 44 deaths; executed 21 alleged Sunni terrorists in one day, and suspended the licenses of 10 satellite channels, 9 of them deemed pro-Sunni.
The Tamil rebels of Sri Lanka, banned as terrorists in five countries, said today that they would stop recruiting children as guerrillas and that they were seeking to take part in democracy.
While I don't think it is feasible (politically, if not logistically) to put up hardened terrorists in five star hotels, this old-fashioned approach to P.O.W. interrogation has a lot to recommend for itself.
And Santosh Sivan, who made his first feature, "The Terrorist," in two weeks on a minuscule budget, is one of India's leading cinematographers.
Shalhoub ventured into television acting in 1986, playing a terrorist in one episode of the series The Equalizer, and in 1988 he appeared in his first television movie, Alone in the Neon Jungle.
