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...monastery is the daughter of Aleksander's former lover. Even when the connections between characters are not that intimate, they sometimes know one another by sight, because commerce and communications keep shrinking the world. War zones nowadays have area codes, and the vision of a terrorist with a Kalashnikov in one hand and a cellular phone in the other, talking to some faraway co-conspirator (or maybe his mother), is not farfetched. Manchevski makes this point almost surrealistically: his peasant gunmen go about their bloody business clad in Nikes and other American-made sports gear...
...doors. "I knew it was a hostage taking when they shouted, 'Allah is great!' " recalled a 40-year-old Algerian-born mechanic now living in France. "I thought of my children back in France, and I became afraid. Three men entered the cockpit, the fourth covered us with his Kalashnikov. No one budged. Then the waiting started...
...determined air of cold- blooded killers." Said another passenger: "They seemed excited, very euphoric. They told us that they would give a lesson to the French and to the world, that they would show what they were capable of." The hijackers made certain everyone got the point by brandishing Kalashnikov assault rifles, Uzi pistols, homemade hand grenades and two packs of dynamite. Later they placed one 10-stick pack of dynamite in the cockpit and a second under a seat in the middle of the plane and linked them with detonator wire...
...were told in Moscow that it would be an equal exchange,' said Sergei V. Kalashnikov, a member of the Liberal Democrat party, which is led by ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. "It seems some people here consider us to be students, that we come here to be taught...
...high school used as a torture chamber and prison during Pol Pot's reign. Tourists who do make it to Angkor Wat are repeatedly reminded to stay on the paths; hundreds of Khmer Rouge land mines are buried around the temples. It is also advisable to give the Kalashnikov-toting militia men "guarding" the complex a dollar or two for their services -- so they don't steal all your money...