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ARLINGTON, Va. - Iran's former president decried a wave of "Islamophobia" that he said is being spread in the United States by fear and hatred of Islam in response to terror perpetrated by Muslims. "In the crime of 9/11, two crimes were committed," Mohammad Khatami said. "One was killing innocent people. The second crime was masking this crime in the name of Islam." Under smothering security, with dozens of uniformed police and plainclothes American security personnel provided by the State Department, Khatami spoke Friday night at an event sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations called "The Dialogue of Civilizations:...

NEW DELHI: In a season when Cold War secrets are tumbling out with astonishing regularity, a new book has just revealed details of a Beijing-Moscow deal on the eve of China's 1962 invasion of India. Co-written by China-born author Jung Chang - best known for ‘Wild Swan’ - and her husband, British historian Jon Halliday, ‘Mao: The Unknown Story’ (Jonathan Cape) is rated the “most authoritative” biography of the late Communist leader. It is an indictment of his domestic and foreign policies, one of the victims of which, the book says, was India. In the chapter “Maoism Goes Global (1959-64)”,...