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...Aparisim Ghosh: I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza, Amman and Baghdad...
...respite while covering Iraq. Aparisim Ghosh I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza, Amman and Baghdad. Alex Perry Perhaps the best number was: Why Can't We Be Friends? by War, which photographer Bob Nickelsberg and I (and our taxi driver) sang along with (rather tunelessly) as we finally headed out of Baghdad for Amman. Simon Robinson One of my most vivid memories...
When a 200-lb. bomb buried in a rutted road took out a U.S. embassy convoy in Gaza last week, killing three Americans, the carnage brought to mind Iraq. It was the first time Americans, rather than Israelis, were fatally targeted by Palestinians inside the occupied territories. Unlike most suicide attacks in the region--but as is often the case in the "Sunni triangle" north of Baghdad--no group claimed responsibility. That left investigators wondering who might be behind the bombing--and what it might portend...
Israeli intelligence officials, however, believe the attack may have been the work of Fatah chiefs in the Gaza town of Rafah, who are feuding with Arafat over his efforts to slow the traffic in weapons smuggled there through tunnels running under the Egyptian border. The attack, they say, was meant to hurt Arafat's global standing, to force him to back off. It certainly put Arafat in a tight spot. The U.S., which sent an FBI team to investigate the bombing, blamed the Palestinian leader for hindering progress against terrorism by blocking the appointment of an Interior Minister to coordinate...
...hoped that other countries at a donors' conference in Madrid would stump up another $36 billion. So far, at least $13 billion in cash grants and loans has been promised. The reconstruction bill has been estimated at nearly $56 billion through 2007. Road Map to Nowhere GAZA In yet another blow to the stalled Middle East road map to peace, Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians, including militants and civilians, in a series of air raids in Gaza, while three Israeli soldiers died in a shooting and grenade attack by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The latter assault came on the heels...