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...Baghdad Blues is his latest homage to the country's traumatized capital, though this discomfiting collection of poems is much less political than the film. You won't find the expected vilification of fiends like Saddam and Chemical Ali. In a parenthetical note to "A Prisoner's Song," Antoon explains that the poem's title refers to POWs on both sides of the Iran-Iraq war. But besides this and one sardonic, flippant reference to U.N. resolutions in "A Prism; Wet With Wars" - the collection's puffed-up opener, which is swollen with images of "imminent wreckage" - there...
...Chinmoy believed that extreme physical fitness was key to achieving enlightenment and world harmony. A guru with disciples around the globe, he drew attention to his mission by holding "ultramarathon" events that spanned up to 3,100 miles and by lifting trucks, airplanes and people, including Nobel laureates Muhammad Ali and Nelson Mandela...
...into custody by the Iraqi government and put on trial for his role in the Anfal, Saddam's 1988 crackdown on Kurdish rebels that left thousands dead and included the notorious chemical-weapons attack on the town of Halabja. In June 2007, Hashem was sentenced to death, along with Ali Hassan Majid, known as "Chemical Ali...
Aware of the threats against her, scores of young men wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Suicide Sacrificers for Benazir" formed a human security cordon. The Suicide Sacrificers took their volunteer security jobs seriously. "Benazir is the daughter of our great leader [PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto], and he was executed by the army," said 20-year-old student Sheikh Ahad as he waited for her plane to touch down. "Her brothers have been killed. She has sacrificed her family for Pakistan, and now she is sacrificing her own self for the poor of this country...
...crowd were fans. Raheel Iqbal, the former information secretary for the Karachi wing of the People's party said that Bhutto had betrayed her father's cause. "Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's manifesto was anti-imperialist, anti-general and anti dictatorship. We spent years in jail to stand up for this manifesto, and now Benazir arrives with American support, and has been making meetings with General Musharraf. Democracy does not require a deal with a dictator." Bhutto has returned to Pakistan with the tacit support of President General Pervez Musharraf, who took power in 1999. Bhutto and Musharraf have been negotiating...