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...Chilling as it is, Djoli's story is a small detail in the epic misery unfolding in Katanga, a province of the D.R.C. that's approximately the size of France and has a population, mostly poor, of 4.1 million. According to U.N. humanitarian officials, some 164,000 people have fled their Katanga homes since late last year, most of them victims of a vicious struggle as government soldiers close in on Katanga's rebel militia groups known as Mai Mai. President Joseph Kabila's transitional coalition - which includes former warlords - is determined to eradicate rebel holdouts before Congo's first...
...Loney, 41, and Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32; after being held by Iraqi kidnappers for 118 days; in Baghdad. The Christian peace campaigners were rescued in an operation led by Britain's SAS, but their captors?who had threatened to kill them unless all Iraqi prisoners were released?had already fled. Fears for the group grew when a fourth hostage, American Tom Fox, 54, was found murdered in early March...
...early 1930s, Wiebe?s Russian Mennonite family fled the terrors of Stalin?s regime to become homesteaders in Canada. One of seven kids, Wiebe describes the labor of clearing trees in the ?boreal forest that wraps itself like an immense muffler around the shoulders of North America.? While Wiebe?s recollections tend to ramble and roam, he returns faithfully to the same characters: hard-working Mam and Pah, sickly sis Helen, older and distant brother Dan. Through memories, family sayings, and photographs, he recreates daily life: chores, trips to church, the three-mile trek to the schoolhouse, marriages and deaths...
...attempted kidnapping that occurred on March 9. The HUPD advisory warned Harvard community members of a Hispanic suspect in his late 20s who was driving a Honda sedan when he allegedly attempted to force a woman into his car at about 2 a.m. by brandishing a fake gun but fled when a Kennedy School of Government guard arrived...
...since Jabr was appointed Interior Minister after the January 2005 election brought a religious Sh'ite coalition to power, Sunnis allege, he began remaking the paramilitary National Police into Shi'ite shock troops. A member of the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), Jabr fled to Iran in the 1970s to avoid Saddam's crackdown. Jerry Burke, a former civilian senior police advisor to the Interior Ministry, said Jabr's experience with Saddam's government has left him bitter and distrustful of anyone he suspects has ties to the previous regime. That would most certainly...