Mutant advances on Trantor.
Matthew X
profrv at nex.net.au
Fri May 14 08:33:39 PDT 1999
War of the worlds
Essay exploring the theory that Osama bin Laden was influenced by Isaac
Asimov's 1951 science fiction classic Foundation, which was translated into
Arabic under the title 'al-Qaida' ( Giles Foden via Guardian )
See also this article by Dmitri Gusev from October, and this article by
Nick Mamatas from February
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Aide says Nidal confessed to Lockerbie bombing
Write-through of an interview with Atef Abu Bakr, a 'former colleague' of
recently deceased extremist and criminal Abu Nidal, in which he claims that
prior to his death Nidal confessed to the 1988 Lockerbie bombing
( Guardian )
See also this Reuters coverage, the interview itself (PDF) in Arabic, this
evaluation of the Lockerbie trial by Hans Köchler from 2001, and this blog
entry from last month
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