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...TRAVEL A Blast from Hong Kong's Past...
...TRAVEL A Blast from Hong Kong's Past...
...Baghdad palace that serves as his office and home. As is usually the case, Bremer has a crisis on his hands. An explosion at a mosque in the city of Fallujah last week killed 10 Iraqis, including the mosque's imam. U.S. soldiers who surveyed the scene say the blast was probably caused by explosives stored inside the building, but locals in Fallujah, a hotbed of anti-American militancy, are accusing the U.S. of bombing the mosque by helicopter or plane. "I'd like to get a third party in there to take a look," Bremer says...
...Afghan troops and torched newly rebuilt schools. During the last week of June, Taliban combatants temporarily seized government offices in a remote part of Zabul province. On June 30 a Taliban operative planted an antipersonnel mine in a Kandahar mosque run by a pro-government cleric; the subsequent blast wounded 17 worshipers. The next day, an anti-Taliban mullah was killed by a shot to the head...
...next to Lekior's in intensive care, Steve Averbach, a victim of an earlier bus bombing, on May 18, watches Seinfeld on a portable television through eyes barely open. Seven people died in that blast, which left Averbach with a spinal-cord injury and lung damage. One of the nurses who cared for him was Naela Haeik, who was born in an Arab village in Israel's Galilee region. She recalls that after surgeons operated on Averbach's spine, she spent four hours settling him into his bed. She hooked the 37-year-old father of four onto a cardiac...