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...into an Arab capital of the nationalist 1960s. Most of the buildings are that old, and slogans of Arab unity and portraits of the leader stare down from every wall, every square, every corner. Still, at least my cell phone worked. And while it's hard to escape from Colonel Ghaddafi's image or his words - his every statement is read word-for-word on the evening news - every building appears to sport a satellite dish, and the city is dotted with Internet café s where Libyans try to keep up with the modern world from which they...
...lobby of our hotel, the Al Kabir, is a case in point: The immense crystal chandelier and a blue-tiled fountain are reminders of the more prosperous times, when it was known as the Grand Hotel. But its name was changed in 1970 after the revolution that brought Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi to power, and his image still dominates the lobby, a portrait flanked by stickers bearing the cover of the "Green Book" in which he outlined his ideology. The book itself is displayed in a glass cabinet at reception, on the shelves of the hotel's business center...
...into the same frequency. So can the Pakistani military. A phone in the house rings, and one of the militants answers. He is asked what's happening. His reply: "Why don't you find out from your side?" After hanging up, he explains the caller was a Pakistani army colonel...
...Espinosa?Estrada's Chief of Staff General Angelo Reyes stole a march on him and became one of the heroes of People Power II. Yet another plot was purportedly being readied by two men who helped spark the original People Power movement: former Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile and Colonel Gregorio "Gringo" Honasan, both pro-Erap senators today. Arroyo's newly appointed national security chief, Lisandro Abadia, said last week the rumors had to be taken seriously. "We cannot let our guard down...
When the Marines stripped Lieut. Colonel Odin Leberman of his command of the corps' lone V-22 Osprey squadron, Leberman admitted that he had told his mechanics to falsify maintenance records to make the troubled aircraft look better. The Osprey, despite 18 years of work and a $12 billion taxpayer investment, needed all the help it could get. Two crashes in the space of eight months had killed 23 Marines, aggravating concerns of the Pentagon about the aircraft's reliability as it weighed going into full-scale production. But now, as the Pentagon begins full-blown probes into both...