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...prawns on a flan of pine nuts, celeriac purée and cream of olive oil get paired with top-notch regional vintages, in this case a La Dame Blanche from Lebanon's Château Kefraya. But if whipping up that combination seems too involved, just book a flight in either first or business class to the Middle East aboard Lufthansa, where you'll be able to savor Maass's handiwork. Now that's taking Arab fare to new heights...
...Before Cardona boarded a plane at Pope Air Force Base this week for the long flight to his unit's Kuwait staging area, he told close friends and family that he dreaded returning to Iraq. One family member described him as "depressed," though stoic about his fate. According to a close friend with whom Cardona spoke just before his departure, the soldier is fearful that he remains a marked man, forever linked to the horrors of Abu Ghraib - he appears in at least one al-Qaeda propaganda video depicting the abuse - and that he and comrades serving with...
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2006. Time: 7:40 p.m. Place: Somewhere over the Atlantic. Northwest Airlines flight to Scotland. For the weekend. Excitement level: High to Dangerously-high...
...third house, Waddah was taken indoors, then down a flight of stairs and through a doorway and pushed roughly to the floor. He felt several kicks to his chest and thighs, followed by rapid- fire questions: What was his name? Where did he live? Where did he work? What was his family's phone number? "They said, 'The sooner you give us a phone number to call, the sooner we contact your family, negotiate a ransom and let you go,'" Waddah says. A common persuasion technique employed by kidnappers is to call the family of the victim and let them...
Living through a ride on the Highway of Death turned out to be the least of my worries as I arrived in Iraq for the first time last week. I had landed at Baghdad International Airport on Tuesday after an early flight from Amman, Jordan, over Iraq's barren western expanses as they caught the day's sunrise. After some visa haggling and a luggage wait upon landing, I was on the road into Baghdad, rolling along the same littered stretch where a friend of mine, aid worker Marla Ruzicka, lost her life to a suicide car bomber in April...