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NEWMAN: I had to ride a camel. Have you ever tried to ride a camel...
...groups Musharraf banned, which after the January speech merely changed their names and bank-account numbers, went further underground. Whether Musharraf has control over these groups remains doubtful. "Our objective is death to India by a thousand cuts. And we believe Kashmir will break the back of the camel and will result in the disintegration of the whole of India," says a top commander of the militant organization formerly known as Lashkar-e-Taiba, now called al-Dawa...
When British explorer Wilfred Thesiger traveled through Oman in the 1950s, he did it the hard way: an arduous crossing by camel of the sand-dune seas of the Empty Quarter, the Arabian peninsula's desolate interior. Parched, starved, waylaid by tribesmen and imprisoned by local sheiks, he barely survived. Fortunately, today's traveler needn't be as tough or determined as Thesiger; regular flights now make the hop over the Empty Quarter...
...PACK YOUR CAMEL BAGS Seeking a trip to Oman that goes beyond standard travel agent offerings? Click here for camel safaris, balloon trips, archaeological tours and whale-watching expeditions. You can also find logistical support for academic research expeditions, location filming and jaunts to the Persian Gulf or to the east African coast...
...weeks, some investigators have quietly shifted away from the assumption that the U.S. is exempt from the kind of suicide bombings that have rocked Israel. "If the frustration continues to grow and we keep meeting with lack of success, what's going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back?" asks a senior official who until recently was a disbeliever in a Palestinian threat. "What's going to stop it from happening here...