Volume 55, Number 13 · August 14, 2008

Corrections

By The Editors

In response to Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave (June 12, 2008)

In Ahmed Rashid's "Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave" [NYR, June 12], it should have been made clear that the "greater jihad," referred to in the first paragraph of his piece, is the struggle to become a better human being and the "lesser jihad" is to fight for Islam and self-defense.

In Harold W. Attridge's article about the Gospel of Judas [NYR, May 1], Jean Donovan, martyred in El Salvador in 1980 with Sisters Dorothy Kazel, Maura Clarke, and Ita Ford, was not herself a nun but a lay volunteer.


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