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...final authority. The Palestinians also complained the harvest couldn't wait for the months it would take to comply with Israeli demands that they install state-of-the-art scanners to screen trucks. So Wolfensohn threatened to walk, leaving the two sides, as he recounted over the weekend, to "blow each other...
...Azahari's death deals a serious blow to Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the Southeast Asian network of militants to which he allegedly belonged, and which is widely believed to have been behind the Bali bombings of last month and of 2002. But many militants are still at large, most notably Nurdin. Shadowy and less flamboyant than Azahari, Nurdin was given responsibility for planning and executing J.I.'s bombing campaign, which was launched by the group's operations supremo Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali) at a terrorism summit in Bangkok in early 2002. (Hambali was arrested in Thailand...
...there was a limited audience in the U.S. for complex terrorists. But four years and a controversial war later, a few works are starting to hang flesh on those stick villains. In addition to Syriana and Sleeper Cell, there's The War Within, a film about a plan to blow up New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and Paradise Now, about Palestinian suicide bombers. Salman Rushdie has taken up the subject in his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown...
...roles as artists as touching the audience in a way beneath the hardened political rhetoric," says Ayad Akhtar, who co-wrote and stars (in his debut lead performance) in War Within. His character, Hassan, is a Pakistani who plans, coldly, to blow himself up. But he falls in love, is touched by suffering and speaks passionately about his cause. That, Akhtar recognizes, is a treacherous balance. "As an actor, I very much approached this as a portrayal of a suicide," he says. "As filmmakers, we always had to keep in mind that this was an act of murder...
Directed by Michelangelo AntonioniSony Pictures Classic5 starsItalian director Michelangelo Antonioni is undoubtedly among the elect of names that will cause any self-respecting film buff to break down and weep in ecstasy. Probably best-known in the US for his 1966 cult classic, “Blow-Up,” Antonioni masterminded and created films that left artsy boys and girls everywhere rooted to their seats in gloomy rapture. Amazingly though, he opens up the theme of alienation while still rendering his movies accessible to the general public, proving it is possible to stray into the realm of introspection...