By Lee Sandlin
Originally appeared in the Chicago Reader
March 7 and March 14, 1997.
[Aside: All last weekend i kept having this one recurring thought: That there are a group of men sitting in a room (or a tent maybe) figuring out ways to kill Americans. And then there are another group of men in a room figuring out ways to kill Arabs. Occasionally heated conversation turns to shouts, and then dies back down again. Someone asks, "Could you pass the water, please?". A cigeratte is lit. Notes are written. Each person has his expertise. Someone asks another's opinion. Someone else ignores it. These are the way killings are planned. Aren't they? I just sit and picture these meetings going on simultaneously. On a stage, separated by white curtain, like an avant-garde play maybe.]
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