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...recorded on June 9 depicted a senior Taliban commander, Mansoor Dadullah, presiding over a "graduation ceremony" for some 300 would-be suicide bombers. Dadullah makes clear their targets will be in countries that have sent troops to Afghanistan: "These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places," he says on the video. "Why shouldn't we go after them?" One of the graduates told the camera, in English, that he was leading a squad on a suicide mission to Britain...
Directors like to think of themselves as adventurers: taking big-budget risks, leading actors and technicians into the artistic unknown, often shooting in faraway locations. But no filmmaker can match Werner Herzog for inspiring recklessness. The German director's movie sojourns take him not just to remote corners of Peru, Alaska and Thailand but also to the uncharted interior of man's highest, most lunatic dreams. In a 46-year career of great fiction films (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Heart of Glass; Nosferatu; Fitzcarraldo) and in a string of amazing, hallucinatory documentaries (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner...
...Denver Nuggets basketball team and ice hockey's Colorado Avalanche, increased his stake in Arsenal, of London, to more than 12%. The flood of money is paying dividends; three of the four semifinalists in this year's Champions League are Premier League clubs. With interest swelling among faraway fans in Asia and beyond, backers of the Premier League can look forward to "a much brighter future of growth," says Hicks. If so, that would be one of the business world's more improbable turnarounds. Less than 20 years ago, English football was known more for rabid fans and decrepit stadiums...
...overlapping threads, which he argues are the factors that have most influenced America’s relations with the tumultuous region: power, particularly militaristic and political; faith, by which he means Christian evangelism, especially its relationship to Zionism; and fantasy, the depiction of the Middle East as a mystical, faraway land in popular culture from “Lawrence of Arabia” to Disney’s “Aladdin...
Ocean waves dance around Little Lin's toes before the water is pulled back out by a distant force. That faraway energy is tugging at him, too, drawing him away from this muddy beach in China's eastern Fujian province toward Europe, to a better life he is sure will one day be his. Last year, the 29-year-old told a snakehead, as traffickers who help smuggle Chinese abroad are known, that he was ready. Many of his friends and family members have already gone. Now it is his turn. He wants to follow his older brother to England...