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...worthy aims of the new round of World Trade Organization negotiations, the six-day talks to launch them last week in Doha were grueling and acrimonious. The meeting in the tiny Gulf state of Qatar was characterized by sly diplomatic intrigue, brutal arm twisting, pompous political grandstanding and foul humor. And although bleary-eyed ministers and officials claimed the new trade agenda more or less pleased everyone, they also showed that getting 142 nations to agree on anything is like building a house of cards on the back of a galloping camel...
...intimated by the E.U. and the U.S. during the standoff? "No, I intimidated them!" Maran replied. His brinkmanship undoubtedly heralded a coming-of-age for the developing countries, which make up three-quarters of the WTO?s members. Their impact is expected to grow further with the admission at Doha of China into...
Amar Makhlulif (Abu Doha), 36 Algerian Status: Accused of organizing planned attack on Los Angeles airport, Dec. 31, 1999. Fighting extradition to U.S. from London. American prosecutors claim Doha was a key figure at bin Laden training camps and also helped al-Qaeda members organize travel in preparation for the L.A. attack...
...Doha Mosque in Bethlehem last week, the imam broadcast a blaring message through the loudspeakers on the minaret: "We are all Osama bin Laden." Washington has a tough job to turn down the volume. - With Reporting by Aharon Klein/Jerusalem and Jamil Hamad/A-Ram
...Since its inception five years ago, Al Jazeera has been the toast of most Western media. American newsmagazines (including TIME) and newspapers sang the praises of the Doha-based satellite channel's defiantly novel approach to reporting news in the Middle East. By the late 1990s, CNN was so impressed by the news channel's coverage and influence that the Atlanta-based network added Al-Jazeera to their list of 200 international affiliates, a relationship that allows each network to use the other's video feed and pictures...