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...moving equipment or people by sea or planning a maritime attack. The reduced number of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden is a "side effect of Operation Enduring Freedom," says Commander Dirk Gross at the German Defense Ministry in Berlin. Commander Jeff Breslau, a U.S. Navy spokesman in Bahrain, says that coalition forces will help ships in distress but that "the focus is not on piracy or maritime crime." The increased naval presence in the Gulf of Aden may have caused the escalation in attacks further south. Leo van der Velden, the WFP's deputy country director for Somalia...
...killing of Ihab al-Sharif, the newly appointed Egyptian ambassador to Iraq, by the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq was the latest and most harrowing blow aimed by insurgents against Arab countries that have sent envoys to Iraq at the urging of the U.S. In just one day, Bahrain's chargé d'affaires was shot in the hand in a botched kidnapping attempt, and Pakistan's head of mission was attacked (he escaped unharmed and was recalled to Jordan). The U.S. and Iraq urged Baghdad's diplomatic community to remain steadfast. "U.S. diplomats aren't going to let terrorists...
Edward Dolnick, a journalist, centers his story on Charley Hill, a London undercover cop raised mostly in the U.S. who has made a specialty of tracking down purloined Goyas and Bruegels before they are fenced to Bahrain or, worse, ditched in a trash compactor. It's one of Hill's missions in life to disabuse people of the idea that art thieves are cultivated smoothies. "The thieves who steal works of art," he tells us, "were usually stealing hubcaps a few years earlier...
...Estimated number of female spectators at Iran's 1-0 win over Bahrain last week to qualify for the World Cup finals-the first time women were allowed at a professional soccer match in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution 0 Number of fans at Japan's World Cup finals-qualifying 2-0 defeat of North Korea; the match was played in a closed stadium in Bangkok following riots during March's North Korea-Iran game in Pyongyang
...Iraq war has made raising funds more difficult. The $94 billion collapse of Kuwait's unofficial stock market in 1982 badly undermined confidence, and repercussions continue to be felt. Finally, Western bankers will be leery about doing business there until legal uncertainties are clarified. A British lawyer working in Bahrain points out that it took the West nearly 300 years to develop a legal framework for banking. Arab bankers are making great progress, but more must be done before they will have a modern financial structure. --By Gordon M. Henry. Reported by Aileen Keating/Bahrain