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...unquestionably Jakarta's much diminished expatriate community, which has been alarmed by a series of increasingly shrill warnings from Western embassies about the impending threat. An ever-growing security clampdown now sees most hotels, and some shopping malls, guarded by groups of machine-gun-toting soldiers and officials who frisk pedestrians and subject entering vehicles to detailed examinations that include a sweep of the chassis with flashlight and mirror-equipped poles. Some of the city's most popular expat watering holes?such as the usually packed BATS at the Shangri-La hotel?have simply shut down until further notice...
...things about Saddam, contradictions abound. He is known to surround himself with paranoiac security. Yet when Saddam invited Mohammed Sobhi, an Egyptian actor performing in Baghdad last year, to one of his palaces, security seemed almost nonchalant. Sobhi and his troupe were ushered inside with nary a frisk. Saddam chatted easily, about Iraqi poetry, about the Palestinian problem. He allowed each guest to pose for a picture with him. The notorious dictator struck his Egyptian visitors as steady, smiling, relaxed, cheerful, sensitive, amiable, hospitable. He sounded confident that he had weathered a storm. "Saddam said every Iraqi feels inside...
Before they would formally start the roast, however, the Pudding co-hosts requested that a Pudding cast member dressed in drag as a nurse frisk Willis for any weapons...
Before they would formally start the roast, however, the Pudding co-hosts requested that a Pudding cast member dressed in drag as a nurse frisk Willis for any weapons...
After lining up for tickets ($20 for foreigners, 40[cents] for Indians), there's a second line, longer and sometimes more costly. Security guards on watch for terrorists frisk bags and bodies at two separate checkpoints, confiscating anything from a long list of banned items, including tripods, mobile phones and video cameras. And if the guards don't get your equipment, the thieves might: pickpockets work the lines...