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...distance, the chaotic scene only makes Fazal Din more nervous. As Pakistani troops advanced into South Waziristan 10 days ago to target the stronghold of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the villager from Karam was fleeing with his family in the opposite direction. After walking for several hours, a bus happened to stop nearby. Parting with whatever cash they had, they bought themselves a ride to this wild and dusty frontier town three days later. "The bombing was hard," Din recalls. "It destroyed five houses near my own." (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
...World Cup at Middlebury College, in a quest for glory, thrills, and a chance to emerge victorious in yet another contest against that college in New Haven. Twelve valiant competitors, an assorted crew including a member of the varsity track team and all diehard Harry Potter fans, boarded a bus in the predawn hours yesterday morning to face off against some of the most experienced college Quidditch teams across the country, running across grassy fields with brooms between their legs...
Although some of the survivors of Bosnia's 1992-95 war traveled by bus to the Hague in the Netherlands to watch the opening day of the trial against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, their trek was in vain. The former psychiatrist and onetime President of the breakaway Serb Republic was a no-show on Oct. 26. Depriving spectators the chance to see the man who had eluded prosecution for genocide and war crimes for 12 years, Karadzic flouted authority once again. Because he is representing himself, no lawyer was present to explain Karadzic's absence. The judge adjourned...
...Relatives of the victims, who took an exhausting 30-hour bus trip from Bosnia to watch the trial, booed from behind the glass in the courtroom and cried, "Politics!" when it was adjourned on Monday. "It's a catastrophe," says Munira Subasic, the head of the Mothers of Srebrenica organization. She lost 22 members of her family, including her 14-year-old son Nermin, whose body was never found. "That criminal didn't even have guts to look us in the eyes," she adds, referring to Karadzic. "This is nothing but a circus." (Read " 'Not Guilty' Plea Entered for Karadzic...
...court on Tuesday, several head-scarfed Bosnian women assembled on the lawn and declared that they would not leave before they saw Karadzic in the dock. Some said they would even go on a hunger strike. But after a short while, they all turned and slowly headed toward their bus...