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Opinion 8:10 p.m. Thursday, May 12, 2011
Terror’s veil lifted in Pakistan
By Deborah Scroggins
The revelation that Osama bin Laden was found “hiding” in a high-security mansion within rifle range of Pakistan’s premier military academy should rip away the last of the veils that have miraculously concealed the fact that al-Qaida has indeed [...]
Continue Reading →This article ran in German in the February 2009 issue of the Swiss magazine Annabelle, under the title “Life in Flight: The Forgotten Women of Darfur.”
By Deborah Scroggins
After a day and a half of traveling, we reached eastern Chad. “The new Darfur,” as some aid workers are calling it, eastern Chad is [...]
Continue Reading →Vogue Magazine
March 2005
Byline: Deborah Scroggins
Aafia Siddiqui, a 33-year-old Boston neuroscientist and the mother of three young children, became the most wanted woman in the world on May 26, 2004. That was the day U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft strode onto a Washington podium lined with gigantic black-and-white mug shots of [...]
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Very weird science.(creationists seek to remove teaching of evolution from schools)
Colin Campbell and Deborah Scroggins
4377 words
1 December 1995
Playboy
THE OFFICE of Professor Kurt Wise could be a set in an Indiana Jones movie. Tall bookshelves, exotic fossils and stuffed birds jostle for space with heaps of esoteric journals in [...]
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January 2005
By Deborah Scroggins
Darfur. Everyone is talking about it, from television reporters at CNN to the other mothers in the car-pool line. “How do you feel about Darfur?” they ask. And what I’m actually thinking is how strange it is to hear people at home speaking the name of [...]
Continue Reading →The people versus al-Qaeda
Story by Deborah Scroggins
9 October 2004
The Sunday Times Magazine
The lush green island of Kiawah, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, appears the perfect haven from America’s terrorist fears. On Kiawah’s white sand beaches, tourists drowse, forgetful of a Middle East they wish would forget [...]
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WOMEN OF THE VEIL // The Hidden faces of Islam
Deborah Scroggins
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
2787 words
2 August 1992
ASADABAD, Afghanistan – There were women who broke the rules in this stronghold of Islamic freedom fighters.
One was a 14-year-old girl who six months ago refused to marry the man of her parents’ [...]
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