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...embrace of Western-style capitalism has come social change, too: the biggest TV hit this year was Star Academy Maghreb, a homegrown version of the French original, in which performers in skintight outfits gyrated to modern remixes of North African music. "This is a new age here," says Ghazi Karoui, who co-launched the independent Nessma TV earlier this year, with the hit show...
...Fleury's liaison in the Kingdom is Col. Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom), a by-the-book officer who simply must be a decent fellow, since we see him playing nicely with his kids too. The two men bond in standard action-movie shorthand: Fleury punches out a man who had slapped Faris. Then we hunker down to investigation scenes from some CSI: Riyadh: ditch-diggings, bullet analysis and an autopsy. Faris has his own method: he searches corpses not for fingerprints but for missing fingers. Is this a flashback to Hitchcock's The 39 Steps? No, it's evidence...
...According to most interpretations of Islamic law, jihad is only justified against an invader that supplants a lawfully chosen leader - the Soviets in Afghanistan, for example. Even according to Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the radical Red Mosque leader who was killed during the siege, jihad did not apply to the situation in Pakistan because Musharraf, hated as much as he might have been, was at least a legitimate President. "But," he warned, "the minute Musharraf's army spills the blood of the Pakistani people just to keep him in power, he is no longer legitimated. Then jihad will be allowed...
...have--or used to have--Israeli clients, partners and friends. They had once looked forward to the day when there would be no trade barriers between an independent Palestine and an Israel with which it was at peace. "The majority of Gazans do not like Israel," said Amassi Ghazi, the chairman of a company that imports building materials. "Until now, only the private sector had good relations with Israel. So please open the border before all Gaza will be enemies of Israel...
...over his inability to tackle al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, his stalling over restoring full democracy to Pakistan, and his drawn-out dispute with the popular Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Now his religious and political opponents are using the Red Mosque siege as fresh ammunition against him. "Our blood," Ghazi said, "will be the first step toward Islamic revolution." Most Pakistanis pray he will be proved wrong...