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...Last King of Scotland.” But Garrigan painfully learns that idealism is not so simple, not to mention potentially dangerous, in this grittily realistic thriller based on the actual political climate of 1970s Uganda. Garrigan finds himself as the personal doctor to dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker) and is forced to find a new understanding of “making a difference.” When Garrigan meets Amin, Amin is the glowing leader of the latest coup and the new hope for Uganda’s masses. Whitaker delivers a stunning performance as Amin, winning Garrigan over...
...conversations about politics. Six months ago, you'd hear President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's name in discussions all around you almost as soon as you sat down on the cafe's Persian-carpeted floors. These days, the subject rarely comes up. "He's like all the rest of them," says Amin, 22, a motorcycle messenger, using a Farsi version of "them" that's shorthand for the corrupt clerical establishment. "What has he done to solve our problems?" Hashem, his companion, nods at the Iranian cigarettes lying beside him. "Even these are more expensive," he says. "He just repeats slogans and goes...
...long, bloody campaign is the legacy of the assumption of power two decades ago by President Yoweri Museveni, a southerner who helped end the string of bloody reigns by northerners such as Milton Obote and Idi Amin. Former soldiers who returned north and felt out of favor soon formed a rebel groups with Christian roots but decidedly anti-Christian tactics...
...that was to have been smuggled on to the aircraft in hand baggage. The plot, codenamed Bojinka - a play on the Serbo-Croatian word for explosion - by its Pakistani planners, came frighteningly close to fruition. In December of 1994, according to U.S. court documents, Ramzi Yousef and Wali Khan Amin Shah, were instrumental in the bombing of a Philippine airlines flight en route to Japan that was a dry run for their much more ambitious attempt to blow up a dozen jets simultaneously. They managed to smuggle a container of liquid explosive concealed in contact lens solution aboard the airplane...
...Zidane was banned for two games after stomping on Saudi Arabia's Fuad Amin, whom people close to Zidane said had leveled a racial slur against the player. Zidane was also forced to defend his Algerian identity - and pride in Algeria's fight against the French - in response to charges, first leveled by a Le Pen flunky but echoed during a torrid Algeria-France match, that Zidane's father had been a harki, the term loosely translated as collaborator and used to describe Algerians who had fought for France in the colonial...