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...What will they freeze? We don't have a single centavo." EId Kabalu, Moro Islamic Liberation Front spokesman, on the Philippine government's threat to label the milf a terrorist outfit and freeze its assets...
...Muslim holiday of Eid dawns in Kabul, but Karzai won't be spending time with his family. His 28-year-old wife, an Afghan doctor, is still living in the Pakistan town of Quetta. Karzai jokes that she is staying put until he finds a decent place to live. Colleagues say he is concerned about her security and that of friends. "Imagine that once you had to live in a jungle full of wild beasts," he says. "Afterward, it takes a while to stop thinking that those beasts are still out there." Many Afghans are convinced that fearsome creatures...
EGYPT Holiday Express to the Inferno A train crammed full of passengers returning home for the Eid al Adha holiday caught fire en route from Cairo to Luxor. The driver kept going for 7 km, the wind fanning flames. Bars on some windows prevented escape, but many people jumped and some survived with injuries. Relatives went to identify the remains of the more than 360 dead in Cairo's central morgue, but many were burned beyond recognition. The Minister of Transport and the head of the state railway system resigned...
...tape's effect was muted. It may help those- such as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah II of Jordan- who would like to argue that the war in Afghanistan is being waged against terrorists, not against Islam. But the tape was released on the eve of Eid ul-Fitr, a major holiday marking the end of Ramadan, when Arabs tend to family festivities rather than the news. Besides, the hot political issue in the past few weeks has been not the war in Afghanistan but the renewed violence between Israel and the Palestinians...
...families or in parking lots on busy streets. No one pursues their killers. With every Israeli hit on a Palestinian leader, the search for traitors intensifies. In the past two weeks five suspects have been lynched; six have been given death sentences. "It's a witch-hunt," says Bassem Eid, a human-rights activist. "There's a huge hatred in society toward the collaborators...