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...illegal immigrants earlier this year encouraged others. Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said Rabat had agreed to forcibly repatriate some of the immigrants currently in Melilla. Critics of the new accord say foisting the problem on Morocco is no solution. "They're driving them in buses to the Algerian desert with no water or food," claims Pepe Alonso, a Melilla lawyer who heads the local chapter of the Association for Human Rights. "This will cause many deaths." Médecins Sans Frontières said more than 500 immigrants had been abandoned by Moroccan authorities in the desert near...
...more openly acknowledged by officers on the ground than by their superiors back home. Turner says when he speaks to people in the U.S., "all they say is, 'Why haven't you caught Osama bin Laden?'" He gestures at range after range of mountains soaring out of the desert floor. "I tell them, 'The Army recruiting office is just down the street. Why don't you try to find him?' It's no easy task." After four years, it isn't getting any easier. --With reporting by Muhib Habibi/Kandahar...
...Kaja's life completely. This consigns her, at age 9, to a new life amid the ruins of postwar Cologne and a tribe of incomprehensible strangers. "I felt like a creature cut off from everything," she says, "a marmot dropped by a white hawk in the middle of the desert." Her struggle over the next years to put down roots is told with painful simplicity. Torn from the comforts of the yurt, Kaja endures "the feeling of suffocation and the fear that the roof is falling in on my head. Why did these people live in houses with no holes...
...Coast. Andy Rogow Hollywood, Florida, U.S. Instead of being rebuilt after the ravages of Mother Nature, New Orleans should be allowed to be covered by water and become a part of mythology, like the island of Atlantis. Then a different New Orleans could be built somewhere in the Southwestern desert. We could have history and mythology come together in our very own lifetime. Rattan Mann Oslo Disturbing Revelations Hurricane Katrina has shown the world America's Achilles' heel: its inability to deliver a quick and coordinated response to a natural disaster [Sept. 12]. Could the U.S. cope effectively with...
Noero and her roommate Sarah M. Hattier, a New Orleans-born sophomore from Tulane, seem confident that if their school doesn’t reopen, Harvard will take care of them. Meanwhile, they continue to pay Tulane tuition, feeling that it wouldn’t be proper to desert their school in a time of need...