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...gone. Nor did they when he jetted off to Southeast Asia on vacation or to Zambia for a meeting or to Libya to visit his friend Muammar Gaddafi. People are busy with other worries, like what to feed the family. You might only notice when Mugabe's convoy - jeeploads of soldiers and that shiny black Mercedes - speeds by on its way to the airport. (It's illegal now to make rude gestures as it goes by; apparently too many people were doing so and it got on the presidential nerves.) Mostly, though, he's cloistered behind the high walls...
...talks, lambasting the LTTE for every violation of the truce, and claiming that life is getting harder under Wickremesinghe. On a recent trip to the ancient capital of Anuradhapura, Wickremesinghe woke at dawn to visit the holy Bo tree, a Buddhist pilgrimage destination. When the Prime Minister's convoy neared the ruins, the walkie-talkies started chattering with a surprise: Kumaratunga was already at the site. The convoy detoured and the Prime Minister wandered around the back of the ruins for half an hour. Finally he aborted the trip and went back to his hotel for breakfast. Foreign diplomats worry...
...cases accepted in Strasbourg, Magomed Khashiyev and Roza Akayeva allege torture and extrajudicial execution of five relatives by Russian troops in Grozny in January 2000; Medka Isayeva and Zina Yusupova say they were wounded and three of Isayeva's relatives killed in an air bombardment of a refugee convoy near Shaami-Yurt in October 1999; Zara Isayeva says that four of her relatives were bombed to death in Katyr-Yurt in February 2000; and Libkan Bazayeva says a car containing her family's possessions was destroyed there in 1999. In all the cases, investigations were opened but no prosecutions resulted...
...demonstrators holding banners and shouting slogans usually marks the start of the working day for UN arms inspectors in Iraq. Then come the journalists, grabbing pictures of the UN team's white Toyota Land Cruisers leaving their compound, before hopping into their own cars to give chase. The convoy quickly grows as Iraqi intelligence officials, also driving white Land Cruisers, join the procession. When the team reaches its destination, it is usually greeted with suspicion and anger. And they usually return to base empty-handed...
...rockets aimed at their bases, the airport or the U.S. embassy. A week ago, Afghan security forces scuppered an attempt to destroy the main power station. American bases are rocketed an average of three times a week; four were recently attacked in one night. Yet another special forces convoy was ambushed on Nov 21. Two cabinet ministers have been assassinated this year, and on Sept. 5 an attempt was made on President Hamid Karzai's life...