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...foreign aid for them dried up, the ADB report said. Indeed, the size and complexity of the challenge they face seems to produce resignation in some officials. "This city has more vehicles than Madras', Bombay's and Calcutta's put together," sighs New Delhi's traffic-police commissioner Qamar Ahmad. "If you combine this with the burgeoning population and outmoded road system, problems are inevitable...
...Convincing drivers will not be easy. "This kind of thing is an occupational hazard," shrugs Pichet Sorpoon, a Bangkok cabbie who has stopped to watch as victims of the crash on Pattanakarn Road are carted away on stretchers. His sentiment is shared by Ahmad. When it comes to intractable road hazards, he says: "You just have to live with it." In the coming years, it seems inevitable that millions of Asians will have to die with...
...abuse by U.S. forces? No, this do-it-yourself Abu Ghraib was a private jail being run by Idema and two other Americans who, along with several Afghan helpers, appear to have set themselves up as antiterrorist bounty hunters. "They pretended they were fighting terrorism," said Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali, after the three Americans were arrested. "But they were outlaws...
...Milosevic's protestations of unfairness ring hollow. Saddam's allegations of political bias resonate more deeply. The Iraqi Special Tribunal is not an international court. It was created - and its judges selected - by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council. Salem Chalabi, the nephew of the once omnipresent opposition figure Ahmad Chalabi, was handpicked by former U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer to be its director. The U.S. government funds the tribunal, the fbi helps gather evidence and 20 U.S. lawyers support the prosecution. Saddam's court appearance was a concession to international law: the third Geneva Convention requires that prisoners...
...AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Moqtada Sadr...