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This is the last in a series four excerpts from this report. GOING DEEP ON JIHAD: THE ROLE OF SUBMISSION Beyond Kinetics The requirements of jihad neither begin nor end with the kinetic aspects of warfare. Flowing from the law of jihad is the Islamic concept of submission and the division of the world into the dar al-Islam and dar al-harb. While Qur’an Verse 9:29 allows “People of the Book” 318 to “submit and feel themselves subdued,” rather than be executed if choosing not to convert, the option of servitude is not automatic: It is not fitting for a Prophet...

U.S. Data Gave Iraq Key to Making Nuclear Bomb After hunting for days, the Iraqi physicist finally checked a long-locked attic room. There he spotted a box, coated with decades of dust, and opened it. Sure enough, it was full of reams of data - American data - on how to make a nuclear bomb. "In it were the Manhattan Project books and reports," Imad Khadduri recalls, referring to the U.S. program that produced America's first atomic weapons during World War II. With that and other U.S. material, Khadduri and his colleagues in 1987 painstakingly began collecting patent designs for...