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...gridlock on Route Irish. It was a few minutes before noon. American troops had blocked the road to clear away the remains of a car damaged by a bomb. Civilian vehicles between the convoy and the roadblock turned off to find alternative routes. The security men, wearing white Arab robes, sat quietly in the line of traffic. Then team leader Johnson climbed out of Ahmelman's car and began firing in the air to warn other vehicles to stay clear - an act which clearly identified the convoy as contractors. "They rang the dinner bell for the bad guys,'' says ERSM...
Josh Rushing, former Marine captain and an accidental star of the movie Control Room made news of his own last week when he signed on to become the American face of the controversial Arab news network Al Jazeera-International. Top U.S. officials, including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, have repeatedly complained that Al Jazeera's coverage is unfair or untrue. Yesterday, Rushing sat down with TIME for his first interview on why he took the job and what the new network will cover...
...Rushing says he looked into the accusations about Al Jazeera distorting the news, and found nothing to stop him from joining. "I'm not condoning everything they do but the Arab media is a key part of national security and how to deal with Arab world. The network has long been the only one in the region with a point-counterpoint approach, where many others are 'point-point-point.' Al Jazeera, for example regularly has Israeli spokespeople on." Rushing says the State Department and Pentagon have both shown interest in working with the new network...
...ease his pain. His inspiration may have been divine but he chose to express himself in the earthy rhythms of American hip-hop. When Jal started rapping in church, the congregation wasn't so sure. But in 2004, when he released his single Gua, on which he raps in Arabic, English, Dinka and his native Nuer, all of Kenya went crazy for it; it stayed at No. 1 there for eight weeks. Although Jal is widely described as a Christian rapper, he dreams of secular peace in Sudan, of a day "When my people will plant seed in their land...
...arms, and any so-called Iraqi institutions set up by the U.S. will never have credibility. Iraqis aren't stupid. They can spot a puppet government as easily as the rest of us. The option that must be explored is bringing in other-perhaps even Arab-countries or the U.N. to try to bridge the gap. That would involve cooperation with the rest of the world, and the Administration would have to give up any plan to have Iraq as an oil-rich client state. Dan Inch Liverpool, England...