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...real for Americans, it is no less so for Afghans, even though those who live in that Texas-size country have been fighting the Soviets or one another for more than 20 years. The bombing was "a normal thing for us," said Mohammed Hashim, 23, who was in the Interior Ministry in the wrecked capital of Kabul at the time of the first attacks. "The women and children went out into the street. In Kabul there's no safe place to hide from bombs anyway." That's why some got out of town; October is the time of the grape...
...which can only lessen the remaining hostages' hopes of getting out unscathed. Zulkurnain Hashim, a 30-year-old wildlife ranger kidnapped last year from Sipadan Island, comments: "If there is a military attack, the Abu Sayyaf will not think twice to kill them." South African Monique Strydom wrote in her diary (recently published in Shooting the Moon) on June 19, 2000, day 58 of her abduction: "I hate them. I hate them a thousand times. I hate them for what they are doing to us ... to our families ... our parents ... for everything they have taken away from us. I hate...
...there. NATO officials say they're "not talking about thousands of troops," and that they're confident someone will pony up; in the meantime, patrols along the border have already been increased. The U.S. has the additional political task in Kosovo of convincing Albanian leaders, including former k.l.a. chief Hashim Thaci, to discourage their followers from heading south. "The discrimination that the ethnic Albanians face in Macedonia cannot match up to what the Serbs have had to endure here in Kosovo," said a senior American official. "The strategy of extremism can no longer be replicated...
...houses many famous architects with lots of experience," says Hashim Sarkis, assistant professor of architecture. "If you have such experience and talent...
...have come in the form of harsh economic sanctions, bombs--and finally in the lack of humanitarian aid for the refugees, lack of compassion for the Serbian victims and what they perceive to be an international unwillingness to protect the non-Albanians in Kosovo. After the appointment of Hashim Thaqi, the founder and onetime head of the Kosovo Liberation Army--once described by U.S. officials as a "terrorist group" that finances itself through drug operations--as the head of a provisional government in Kosovo, the Yugoslavs fear whom the U.S. would choose as their leader if Milosevic leaves...