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...Hizballah appears to be confining its protests to fiery rhetoric and street demonstrations. In a widely watched televised address Sunday night, Hizballah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah directed his anger more toward Arab governments, Egypt in particular, for complicity in the onslaught against Hamas than toward Israel itself. "Some Arab regimes ... are helping by all means to impose the conditions of surrender on the resistors of the American-Zionist project," he said. "The 2006 July war occurred under Arab approval, even Arab request... They told the Israelis to get rid of Hizballah. They are doing the same thing in Gaza, they...
Indeed, even as the Israelis said the operation was continuing, Egypt was among the diplomatic casualties. Cairo played host to Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on Dec. 25. She took the opportunity to criticize Hamas for its rocket attacks. The silence of her Egyptian hosts is now being seen by Palestinians as indirect collusion with Israel, damaging Cairo's ability to play mediator. Furthermore, in the contest for primacy between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, Hamas - as the "victim" of this episode - emerges as the victor in the eyes of Arabs and Palestinians. Already, elements of Abbas' Fatah Party...
...Breininger, 21, had disappeared a month earlier from his hometown in the southwestern city of Neunkirchen. According to German investigators the former skateboard rider then resurfaced in Egypt, where he tried to learn Arabic. A few weeks later, investigators say, he traveled, via Iran, to the tribal areas in northern Pakistan. Officers at Germany's Federal Crime Agency believe he has since received training in weapons and explosives. Fearing that he could slip back into Germany to carry out an attack, they have put him at the top of Germany's most-wanted list. (Read TIME's Top 10 lists...
...Buchman's narrow focus on two military campaigns - the successful rebellion that led to the taking of Havana, Guevara's disastrous operation in Bolivia nine years later - while ignoring Che's role in mass executions in Cuba after the revolution and his ill-advised adventures in West Africa (where Egypt's Nasser correctly predicted Guevara would be coming in as Tarzan among the natives). Others will wonder at the odd lack of dramatic incident among all the warfare. But you really can't argue with Buchman and Soderbergh about the movie they didn't make; a viewer must accept that...
...March 2006 but in his second stay, he was stabbed in the leg in a mugging. He was unsure whether it was a random incident or if he was targeted for being Uyghur. After the experience, he no longer felt safe there, so he found a friend in Egypt and left Turkey for University there...