Danner on Al Qaeda ... Last May Mark Danner crafted one of the finest pieces of prose in recent memory.

Now he's done it again.

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Update: The latter link is not to the long-form article that ran in this week's New York Times Magazine. Rather, it's to the abridged piece that ran in the weekend edition of the International Herald Tribune. The latter version may not be as exhaustive in its references, but the quality of writing is far better. (Perhaps in a later post I'll get to why this is almost always the case.)