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(Fox News) - Once you get past the controversial cover, Ryan Lizza's look at Barack Obama in last week's New Yorker magazine included some telling nuggets about the senator. Lizza republished parts of a little-noticed article Obama wrote in Chicago's Hyde Park Herald just eight days after the September 11th attacks.

Obama wrote: "the essence of this tragedy... derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers." And why did Obama say Al Qaeda lacked empathy? Was it radical Islamist hatred? No. Obama wrote that Al Qaeda's lack of empathy grew out of a "climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair."

The Los Angeles Times online reports that the Obama campaign had no space for Lizza, who asked to join Obama during the European leg of his overseas trip.