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COLUMBIA University Presi dent Lee Bollinger yester day made some cutting crit icisms while introducing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - but that doesn't make the school's decision to offer a platform to the head of a violent terrorist state any less abject, squalid or shameless. "Abject, squalid, shameless" is how Winston Churchill described the resolution passed by Oxford University's prestigious Debating Union in 1933 - the year Adolf Hitler came to power - that "this House will under no circumstances fight for King and Country." And Columbia's event, like the 1933 Oxford resolution, sent (to quote Churchill again) a "very...

Once again, terrorists targeted the heart of Europe. And the threat seems to be growing all the time. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with terror expert M.J. Gohel about the effectiveness of security measures, the creation of new terrorists and how the West can win the ideological battle. SPIEGEL ONLINE: The foiled attacks in London could have killed thousands of people.the July 7, 2005 attacks on the London subway and bus system paid off? Gohel: Absolutely. The United Kingdom has been under threat from Islamist extremist groups for a long time. There were some cynical voices arguing that these security measures were...