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...couple will spend a week in India in Dubai, followed by a week-long safari in Tanzania, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, and capping off their month-long sojourn with sailing off the coast of Zanzibar. As for the wedding proposal, Hall remained close to home and proposed to Mainland on the Weeks footbridge...
...video, sent to al-Jazeera the next day but never aired, recorded an execution: one of the four hostages, Fabrizio Quattrocchi, shouted, "I'll show you how an Italian dies," just before he was shot through the neck. And the third tape, sent to the al-Arabiya network in Dubai and broadcast in Italy last Monday, preyed on the nation's hopes and fears in a cruel, subtle way. It showed the three survivors, Salvatore Stefio, Umberto Cupertino and Maurizio Agliana, perched on a couch in what looked like a living room. They had been dressed in clean white Arab...
...Mary may look and sound like a 1950s television boy next door, all grins and simple declarative sentences, but his childhood was anything but all-American. Born in Saudi Arabia to a Peruvian mother and a South Arkansan father in the oil business, he attended high school in Dubai. His brief spates in the U.S.—to visit family in the south, or after being evacuated during the first Gulf War—didn’t do much to create roots. Maybe that’s why O’Mary took so well to the campaign...
...Except for the traditional gold suq, where tourists like to wander, little is left of Old Dubai. But Sheik Mohammed's planners are also taking care of those who crave that experience. Madinat Jumeirah, scheduled for completion later this year, will feature clusters of villas made with a mud-and-beam design to re-create a 19th century Arab city?oh, yes, and two five-star hotels. A country has to have standards, you know...
...Americans is perhaps the most dangerous in the world. Zovko joined the Army in 1992, serving in the 82nd Airborne Division and qualifying for the Ranger corps. After tours of duty in Bosnia and Kuwait, he left the Army in 2001 and worked as a bodyguard for executives in Dubai. But Zovko, friends say, still yearned for adventure and the chance to make a difference in the world. As an employee of Blackwater USA, a private company hired by the Pentagon to provide security for nonmilitary personnel in Iraq, Zovko recently returned to a war zone: Iraq's Sunni triangle...