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A scene from Paradise Now, a new movie directed by Hany Abu-Assad
that explores the recruiting of suicide bombers

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Asians. Sleeper Cell is likely to gener-
ate plenty of heated controversy, as
did FOX's long-running TV series
24, which starred Kiefer Sutherland
as counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer.
In one episode last March, an
American Muslim terrorist group
gains control of a nuclear plant,
causing a meltdown. In the course of
the operation, the group's leader
fatally shoots his own wife, tries to
kill his own son, kidnaps the U.S.
secretary of defense and tries to
behead him on live television.
After strong protests from the
Council on American-Islamic
Relations, Sutherland gave an on-air
"clarification',' to the effect that the
American Muslim community had
denounced terrorism.

British and American novelists had
tried to fathom the emotional and
civic impact of terrorism on their
societies and peer into the future,
Their prophecies are hardly encour-
aging as they portray a world of
sharply curtailed civil liberties and
constant alerts.
To paraphrase the turn-of-the-
20th-century journalist Lincoln
Steffens, these writers "have seen the
future, and it doesn't work."
In a recent overview of the terror-
themed genre, the New York Times
recommended four works of fiction:
Saturday by Ian McEwan, Incendiary
by Chris Cleave, Specimen Days by
Michael Cunningham and Ghost
Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and
Now by Patrick McGrath.
A fifth recommendation harks
back to an earlier terror attack, the
London blitz of World War II, the
On The Stage
In the theater, often the first venue atmosphere of which Graham
for probing examinations of burning Greene captured in The Ministry of
Fear. The Times describes the book
issues, there appears to be a dearth
as a "template for today's =defies."
of plays by major writers exploring
Readers have a wider selection
the terrorism issue.
In Romance, David Mamet takes a among nonfiction books.
Amazon.com lists some two dozen
largely farcical look at the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict, but without get- works on the subject of the suicide
bomber, with titles such as Dying to
ting deeply into terrorism.
Kill,
My Life Is a Weapon, What
Some of the most intriguing work
Motivates
Suicide Bombers and
has been done by the British play-
Dying
to
Win.
wright Robin Soans, whose London
Judging by reviews, readers have
hit, Talking to Terrorists, uses the
liked
The Road to Martyr's Square: A
verbatim observations of terrorists
and their families to try to get inside Journey into the World of the Suicide
Bomber by Anne Marie Oliver and
the head of the fanatic. Soans used
Paul Steinberg. Oliver and Steinberg
the same technique in his earlier
lived in Gaza for some six years,
play The Arab-Israeli Cookbook,
starting with the first intifada in
performed recently at Hollywood's
1987, and managed to interview
small Met Theatre. Despite the
some of the top Hamas leadership.
innocuous title, the work delves
The co-authors trace the history
deeply into the motivations and
of suicide bombing from medieval
price of terrorism.
In Israel, where artists and writers times through Japan's kamikaze
are more willing to examine the raw pilots in World War II, the Iran-Iraq
war of the 1980s, the Tamil Tigers in
wounds of the conflict, the play
Sri Lanka, to the present Middle
Plonter, or Tangle, is forcing viewers
East and worldwide proliferation.
to examine the grievances and mis-
Suicide bombers' motivations are
eries of both sides.
diverse, they say, including "religion,
nationalism, grievance, fame, glory,
money" In addition, the book notes,
Between The Pages
"they have to have an entire system
Between Sept. 11, 2001, and this
that
supports their actione 1-1
year's subway bombings in London,

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