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...further. All in spite of Peru's booming economy. "I would not be surprised if Garcia dropped to 10%. Peru is certainly not in bad shape, it just seems that way to many people because we can't get Garcia's first government out of their heads," said Eduardo Farah, head of the national association of industries. "The president has a serious image problem...
...taste of some of those issues - on the first night of his visit a misunderstanding between Coalition forces, the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police led to an air strike in western Afghanistan that killed eight police and injured six, according to Khalilulah Rahmani, Police chief of Farah Province. "It was an unfortunate incident of friendly fire," says Hamidzada, who explained at a press conference that Afghan soldiers traveling with U.S. forces had mistaken the police for Taliban militants and asked for air support...
...first big shipments - sending crates of fresh-cut South African gladiolas into the United Arab Emirates - Bout realized it was wasteful flying into Africa with empty planes. According to Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes War Possible, a book on Bout written by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun last year, Bout began to fill his Africa-bound aircraft with stockpiles of Soviet weapons to sell to some of Africa's most notorious regimes and rebel groups. As his business expanded, Bout found himself selling weapons on both sides of the conflicts. In the 1990s, according...
...Actually, I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston. It was very strange because I always had short hair and I always hated my short hair. So I was always trying to find a new style. I would look at magazines and try to find something that I thought was somewhat attractive that I could skate with. It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea that it would be popular...
...Minister, Ali Mohammed Gedi, pleads eloquently for assistance. He also recognizes that no outside support will be sufficient if his government fails to rise above the clans. "It is a fully inclusive government," he declares. But few buy his rhetoric. "He is not consulting us," says Ugas Abdullah Ugas Farah, chairman of all Somalia's tribes. "That means clanism. And that means the man with the biggest gun is in charge." Mohamed Uluso, a clan leader from the Ayr tribe, adds: "There is no basic trust. The government is not reaching out to anyone. The people are charged to explode...