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...imprisoned in Britain. Abu Doha is awaiting extradition to the U.S. for his alleged role in directing Ahmed Ressam, the confessed "millennium bomber," whose plot to attack Los Angeles International Airport was thwarted in December 1999. Virtually everyone linked to the Strasbourg plot - a network of people that spanned Ger- many, Italy, Spain, France and Britain - has been in contact with Abu Doha. After he was arrested, French sources maintain, the operatives looked to another man, Rabah Kadre, for their orders. But Kadre himself was arrested last November, along with two other North Africans, amid reports - officially denied - that they...
...Munch Museet Just a fraction of its 23,000-piece collection of Edvard Munch works is on show at any one time. Also on until Jan. 19: works by Picasso, Braque, Léger and Gris on loan from Stockholm's Moderna Museet. Tøyengata...
...there are two and a half million residents—nearly a third of them huddled together in the capital city. To this day, nearly half the population consists of nomadic herders who keep goats, sheep, horses, yaks and camels for a living, and dwell in portable felt yurts, (ger in the local language) and move about the open range in search of pasture for their livestock. Infrastructure is simply nonexistent, with no paved roads, little in the way of electrification and old, unreliable phones only in the few village centers and gasoline rated...
Somewhere between a tent and a hut lies a curious little structure known by a single ungainly syllable: yurt. A yurt--also known as a ger, if that sounds any better--is a small, round, roofed structure that looks like something Bilbo Baggins might have used as an outhouse. But it has become the trendy choice for do-it-yourself shelter...
Kites hovering ahead of us indicated a ger. The tradition is to shout "Hold the dog!" on approaching to warn the occupants to restrain their snarling mastiff. Let the horsemen deal with formal greetings. They'll produce a snuff bottle from the upper folds of their gowns, which double as carryalls, and hand it over for a snort while exchanging a long handshake. Bring appetite enough for thick, yak-milk yogurt, cheese and marmot meat hot from a dung-fired stove. Try fermented cow's or mare's milk. After a bowl or two, you'll be ready to invade...