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Belmont Club discusses the left's way of dealing with terrorism:

What thread runs through today's top world headlines? (This selection was obtained by running the search URL "http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=w" at July 23, 2005 03:00 Zulu)

Blasts in Egypt Kill at Least 49 at Sinai Resort

Police seeking London bombers shoot man dead

Blast rocks Beirut after surprise visit by Rice

Kidnapped Algerian envoy had refused Iraqi offers of bodyguards

Ummah must initiate joint war against extremists: Musharraf

Sunnis to continue boycott until demands met

Tribal elders who aided hunt for al-Qaida-linked militants shot ...

Terrorism: brigades threaten Rome, Amsterdam and Copenhagen

Rice: Israel must coordinate disengagement with PA

UN reform to include first definition of terrorism

Of the several possible answers, the subtlest is that there is no skein running through these stories. In January, 2005 the BBC ran a series of television programs called the Power of Nightmares, which argued that horrifying headlines like these, if connected at all, were linked in entirely imaginary ways.

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