The Trib has kept relentlessly pounding away on the normalcy, even niceness, of the bomber/fliers* while they lived in the US: "Model tenants now neighbors' worst nightmare." For reasons unclear to me, I find it one of the more interesting angles on this awful story. See if you agree.

*By the way, what's the verb -> noun appropriate to describe them? "Terrorists" is too much like "warriors" to describe soldiers: it's too generic.

Meanwhile, Dave Winer has decided to pull his head out of our collective journalistic navel and has started a directory of Central Asian newspaper sites. Very revealing in very many ways. Highly recommended.