American - Journalist | September 16, 1973 -
For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists.
Richard Engel
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Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.
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Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.
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Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the decedents of an ancient Roman legion that disappeared into the desert two millennia ago.
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Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they're very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons.
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The U.S., often in secret, carries out counterterrorism missions all the time, with drones in places like Yemen and Somalia.
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Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.
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War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.
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The Muslim Brotherhood is much more hardline than Turkish Islamists.
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Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them.
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Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.
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Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.
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