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...cast he ultimately assembled includes a folklore scholar who plays a monk, a monk trained in pure mathematics who plays a tractor driver, an official from Bhutan's Royal Monetary Authority who is also a former member of the national football team, a lieutenant colonel in the King's bodyguard and a charismatic TV reporter with a journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley. They're a devout but cosmopolitan bunch, and they've taken their director's special standing in stride. After two months of shooting, they treat him with casual affection and a deference that seems...
...produced that analyzed the weak points of the U.S. military. The conclusion: Iraq lost because it lacked the will to attack U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and explode gas and oil pipelines. He made his military officials watch the film to boost morale. But Lee Young Kuk, a former bodyguard to Kim, says his ex-boss "is afraid of the U.S. He knows he can't beat them...
Still, Kim likes his fun. A big drinker, he was observed during his summit with Kim Dae Jung knocking back 10 glasses of wine. Former bodyguard Lee Young Kuk says that at one of Kim's luxurious palaces on the sea, his boss would tool around on a body board in a vast swimming pool equipped with a wave machine, while a female doctor and a pretty nurse swam behind. Kim has been reported to have three wives but maintains a reputation for womanizing. In a recent tell-all book, Russian security agent Konstantin Pulikovsky, who accompanied...
...including Heorhiy Gongadze, whose headless corpse was found by the side of a road in the Tarashchanskiy forest near Kiev in November 2000, two months after he disappeared. Gongadze had been writing articles critical of Kuchma and his top officials. That same November, Major Mykola Melnychenko, a former Kuchma bodyguard now in the U.S., released a secretly taped recording of a conversation in which Kuchma purportedly tells top aides that Gongadze should be "given" to Chechen guerrillas or otherwise disposed of. The government has repeatedly denied any role in his death. Unlike Gongadze, Mikhailo Kolomiets was not known...
...carrying suspected terrorists and killed them. You said, "U.S. officials think" that one of the six killed was Kamal Derwish, "a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers as the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell" in the U.S. Another victim, "according to Yemeni officials," was a former bodyguard of bin Laden's. Apparently, the U.S. now kills without judicial trials and without questions. Are we nothing more than technically advanced snipers and terrorists? STEFAN SALINAS San Francisco...