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Ultraluxe proprietors talk less about amenities and more about personalization, experience and authenticity. Service is everything. "We have to anticipate your needs," says Atef Mankarios, former ceo of the St. Regis and Rosewood Hotels, who is overseeing a development planned for Punta de Mita, Mexico. At the recently opened Fouquet's Barrière Paris, where rooms start at about $800 per night, guests are encouraged to fill out a "favorites" form before they arrive. The hotel then welcomes them with fruit, chocolates, music or flowers to suit their tastes. "You have to give your guests a warm, genteel, caring kind...
...Hamas and Fatah gunmen ready for a showdown on the empty streets of the Gaza Strip, leaders of both factions told TIME they are trying to broker a compromise, one that could lead to a power-sharing agreement between Abbas and the Hamas-backed Prime Minister Ismail Haniyah. Atef Ibrahim Adawn, a long-time Hamas member who is now Minister for Refugee Affairs, told TIME that within the next few days, both sides may announce an accord on a joint peace proposal that could eventually lead to a new "national unity government" made up of technocrats in which Hamas...
...MOHAMMED ATEF Egyptian Al-Qaeda's former military commander was responsible for bin Laden's security...
...Munich's actual perpetrators? Klein believes the Mossad got only one man directly connected to the massacre: Atef Bseiso, shot in Paris as late as 1992. Abu Iyad, Black September's chief, was killed by a fellow Palestinian in 1991. Abu Daoud, who commanded the Munich attack, was, ironically, allowed to enter Israel in 1996 so he could go to the Gaza Strip for a P.L.O. meeting convened to rescind an article in its charter calling for Israel's eradication. Of the three terrorists who survived the airfield firefight, one died of heart failure in the '70s. Another, Jamal...
...seen a terrorist attack on foreigners, who it can be argued have been safer there than in New York City. European tourists have begun to return to Egypt, but they don't use luxury hotels and river tours to the extent that Americans do. "And when Americans dine," says Atef Goubran, an executive with Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, "they drink wine and cognac...