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...Said Hassan Mokhles, an Egyptian wanted for his alleged role in a 1997 attack on tourists in Luxor, Egypt, was arrested leaving Brazil through Uruguay in 1999. He is said to have trained in an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan...
According to a London representative of Egyptian Refaei Ahmed Taha, head of the Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya group responsible for the 1997 terrorist attacks in Luxor, Egypt, the leaders of al-Qaeda last spring heatedly debated whether to begin using biological and chemical weapons. Taha, his associate confides, opposed such deployment, arguing that these uncontrollable weapons would immediately mobilize international opinion against Islamist militants. That, he maintained, would transform their reputation from defenders of fundamentalist Islam and the Arab cause--an image al-Qaeda has cultivated by championing martyred children in Palestine and Iraq--to executioners and criminals against...
...show: tubes of paint are poured onto a drum, and the resulting splashes form instant abstract art; an audience member is dragged onstage to join the Blue Men in a Twinkie banquet, which gets icky when the cream filling bursts out of their stomachs. But the stage at the Luxor Hotel, where Blue Man Group has been playing since March, is four times the size of the troupe's entire theater in New York City, and the show has become Vegas-big as well. A third of the material is new--neon figures come to life onstage in one Western...
Trying to book a Las Vegas-strip hotel room for an upcoming reporting assignment. Neither Caesars nor the Mirage had any vacancies. What's worse, my lowball Priceline offer for a room at either the Luxor or Treasure Island was summarily rejected...
...streets surrounding Lake Como at the $1.3 billion Bellagio, etc. etc. Where else in the world can you wake up and look out one window and see the Eiffel Tower (a half-size recreation stands over the Paris hotel); or look out another and see Egyptian pyramids at the Luxor or the Chrysler and Empire State Building at New York, New York? It's a substitution for culture--a fantasy of epic proportions stuck in the middle of a desert. Las Vegas is the greatest expression of our culture's current artistic sensibility (or lack...