Small groups of alienated white supremacists and antisemites explode a massive bomb made from fertilizer chemicals, destroying a federal building and killing hundreds. More than two weeks pass before enough rubble has been cleared to find all the victims. A shocked president warns Americans...

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Destined to Die: A Novel about Palestinian Youth as Fighters and Suicide Bombers, by Victor Sasson. New York: iUniverse, Inc. 2004. 252 pages. $16.95. Reviewed by Sabah A. Salih Long, long before George Bernard Shaw made a name for...

Attacks by female suicide bombers in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion:_ Feb. 1: Two mentally retarded woman strapped with remote-control explosives strike pet markets in Baghdad. At least 73 people killed; Iraqi authorities believe the women may have been used as unwitting suicide bombers._...

Indonesia's top court said Tuesday it rejected final appeals of three Islamic militants convicted over the 2002 Bali bombings, bringing closer their executions for the attacks that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.Supreme Court spokesman Nurhadi, who goes by a single name, said two separate...

All that is missing from this heavyweight account of a Lancaster bomber's part in a 1943 RAF raid which hit the wrong target with ten million pounds of bombs is Dean Jagger, as the former wing adjutant, riding his bicycle up to the perimeter fence and climbing through to pace along the overgrown runway. For, essentially, [Bomber] is an RAF Twelve O'Clock High intended to be complete in every particular; it's almost as if it had been computed rather than written, and certainly it reads t...

What distinguishes Bomber, Len Deighton's novel about the RAF, from the many other stories I have read about the airmen in World War II, is its involvement with both sides: opposed are seven hundred British bombers directed at the heavy industry in the Ruhr, and the German night fighters and antiaircraft crews who plot to intercept them. Involved also, and punishingly, are the German civilians in the medieval town of Altgarten, which, through the force of the wind and the fault of the crews sent to p...