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...seemed too amazing to be true. In fact, it was. Last month, after five months of chemical tests, microbial diagnosis, X-rays, radiocarbon dating and 200 C.T. scans, Pakistani experts concluded the mummy is a fake. "The mummified body is 100% modern," according to archaeological chemist Muhammad Toseef-ul-Hassan. What initially seemed to be one of the world's most intriguing archaeological discoveries is turning into one of Pakistan's strangest murder mysteries...
Ibrahim Hajimi is not, it turns out, just another Palestinian child. His father Hassan is a charismatic firebrand currently in detention in Jerusalem for suspected terrorist acts. And the boy's maternal grandfather is George Raad, a Boston cardiologist and internationally known Palestinian advocate. The death of a little boy so prominently connected offers a chance for some effective anti-Israel propaganda. To neutralize that very thing, Colonel Daniel Yizhar of West Bank security briefs Lieutenant Doron on what will be the official army version of the checkpoint episode. The story is mostly accurate but omits, Doron notes, the long...
...latest political twist in Sudan's chaotic civil war, President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir ordered the arrest of opposition Islamist leader Hassan Al-Turabi and the detention of 30 members of his National Popular Congress. Turabi irked the President by striking a deal with Christian rebel leader John Garang, whose Sudan People's Liberation Army has waged war for greater autonomy in the mostly Christian south from the Muslim north. That agreement brought the Muslim and Christian fundamentalists together for joint "peaceful popular resistance" against Bashir's regime, which has to date failed to end Sudan's internal strife peacefully...
...halt the violence before Israel's Feb. 6 elections, defended the current hits in a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Committee members say Barak told them, "We're at war. A state facing a terrorist threat has to wage a struggle." Palestinian Cabinet minister Hassan Assfour calls it the "true criminal face of the Israeli government...
...Siad Barre's regime in 1991, the country has become synonymous with violence and chaos, the archetypal "failed state" in United Nations-speak. But 10 years on, Somalia is finally and slowly beginning again. In August a peace conference in neighboring Djibouti elected a Somali parliament that then chose Hassan, 58, a long-serving minister in the Barre regime, as President. In October, he and the new M.P.s arrived in Mogadishu, the capital, to begin re-creating their country from scratch. Last month the U.N. said it will begin looking for ways to help out. "The people are anxious...