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...Taliban militia. But structures linked with Bin Laden have been identified in Yemen, Bosnia, the Philippines, even New Jersey - pockets of support have been unearthed in most places where foreign veterans of the Afghan war are to be found. Earlier this year, a New York court convicted a former Egyptian army major of doing intelligence work for Bin Laden's networks - Ali Mohammed had also been a sergeant in the U.S. Army. And the Algerians arrested last December for allegedly smuggling explosives into the U.S. are suspected of working with Bin Laden, even though they had been linked with Algeria...
...Labor party ought to be well aware that there's little chance of the Palestinians being ground down by force. And the conflict is placing tremendous strain on the pro-Western Arab regimes who have kept the peace in the region for most of the past three decades. An Egyptian commentator warned last week that Sharon's path was jeopardizing "the entire network of political relations upon which the possibility of Israel's peaceful existence in the Middle East depends...
This changed one evening last week, when I was flipping channels and came across a music video of three men doing a dance which somewhat resembled the Bangles in “Walk Like an Egyptian.” I was laughing really hard, until I realized that the actors in this video were actually making fun of themselves. The video included all sorts of events that would take place in a run-of-the-mill Hindi film romance song—and then proceeded to wreck them. The three actors were excellent, and the video was good...
...Aaliyah's charm, however, is mystery. The young star loves to hint at private quirkiness. She says her apartment in Manhattan is littered with Egyptian objects: cat statues, Egyptian pictures, a dresser shaped like a pyramid. At the start of her career, she hid her eyes behind large dark glasses. Later on, she took to wearing her long dark hair swept in front of one eye, like '40s film star Veronica Lake. (These days she is letting both her eyes show...
...manuscripts. Since 1970, illegal traders in Kenya and Tanzania have carted off hundreds of vigango, or Swahili wooden grave markers. When fighting erupted in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in 1991, one of the first casualties was the National Museum. Within weeks many of its prized exhibits, including ancient Egyptian pottery, were on sale to tourists in neighboring Kenya...