Three Rs — and Revenge

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Islamic student Mohammed Siddique at an anti-U.S. demonstration in Peshawar

Mohammad Siddique aimed to draw blood. In his hand he had a sharp-edged stone to throw at the police during a demonstration in support of Osama bin Laden in Peshawar last week. But in his mind he had another aimto strap explosives to his body to kill Americans. "I am not afraid to die," said the slightly built 18-year-old student from a fundamentalist medressa, or Islamic school. "Our prophet said each Muslim is part of one body, so if anywhere in the world a Muslim is injured, we are hurt here too." And so Siddique went to the daily anti-U.S. demonstrations...

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