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...After visiting Guantanamo twice and interrogating the prisoners themselves, officials from Islamabad contend that only eight of the 58 Pakistani detainees had genuine links with al-Qaeda. Most, they say, are wannabe jihadis who were recruited from Pakistani mosques and crossed the frontier last October to join the Taliban after the war began. Their average age is between 20 and 22. "They broke down and cried when they saw us," says one Pakistani official. In Guantanamo, the Pakistani envoys say they asked the American jailers: "Why did you waste your time and money bringing them to Cuba when you could...
...probably first performed in the Middle East, then spread through that region and North Africa. The term belly dancing is a misnomer adopted in the West in the 19th century: in ancient Middle Eastern societies, women would have been forbidden to show their midriffs. Most modern practitioners contend that belly dancing was designed not for sexual enticement but as a fertility ritual or for birthing ceremonies for and among women. There has also been speculation that the rotating pelvic movements arose from the action of stirring soup...
...After visiting Guant?namo twice and interrogating the prisoners themselves, officials from Islamabad contend that only eight of the 58 Pakistani detainees had genuine links with al-Qaeda. Most, they say, were wannabe jihadis who were recruited from Pakistani mosques and crossed the frontier last October to join the Taliban after the war began. Their average age is between 20 and 22. "They broke down and cried when they saw us," says one Pakistani official. In Guant?namo, the Pakistani envoys say they asked the American jailors: "Why did you waste your time and money bringing them to Cuba when you could...
...thought the first course was fairer,” he said. “Not that it was easier, but the second course had some bad holes. But obviously everyone had to contend with that...
...Verhofstadt. "It was an astonishing episode," says Raymond Langendries, president of the commission. As America's business scandals resonate throughout Europe - triggering a slew of safeguards meant to improve corporate transparency and accountability - the unmistakable sound of tut-tutting can be heard across the Continent: many business leaders contend that Enron-style abuses simply couldn't happen on their turf. "Our situation is profoundly different from the American one," says Daniel Bouton, CEO of the French bank Société Generale and head of a corporate governance group set up by French business. "We already have the supervision here...