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...Yasmin Hamidi, 25, the war was all she experienced on her first trip to Lebanon. Beirut's international airport was bombed on the day she arrived. She was visiting with her uncle's family, in an apartment close to some of the heaviest bombing. "A couple of times we were bombed directly near our home - one bomb hit a truck that was parked near our apartment," Hamidi says. This bomb hit an hour before she was meant to report to the American embassy for evacuation. "When that happened, I thought, ?Well maybe I'm not supposed to leave Lebanon.'" Hamidi...
...positions Units became hopelessly entangled on the narrow road through the jungle. Casualties were heaviest at the exposed river crossing...
...Vlaams Belang immediately condemned the murders, demanding "the heaviest possible punishment for the murderer" and declaring that "such disturbed criminals ought to have no place in our community." But other politicians and commentators were quick to connect the murders to VB's xenophobic policies. "These horrible and cowardly crimes are a form of extreme racism," said Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt. "No one can ignore what the far right can lead to." Whether such charges will erode the VB's appeal, or give it a new underdog allure, is still not clear...
...targets and kidnap American citizens in Yemen; in Sana'a. The terrorist cell, whose members were arrested in June 2005, was alleged to have stockpiled explosives and weapons and surveyed restaurants and hotels used by Americans in the Yemeni capital. The cell's alleged leader, al-Ammari, received the heaviest sentence for his role in founding and training the group...
...favorite articles. “If a book’s going to be heavy, it can be a little heavier. Let’s face it, there are some heavy doors, and if you’re going to have a doorstop, you might as well have the heaviest.” Nor is he beyond lambasting his own writing. “I criticize my own sentences as I’m about to write them to make them as perfect as I possibly can. I think I’m my own sternest critic...