Word: megiddo
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Maher’s odyssey begins and ends in Megiddo, Israel, where some Christians believe the world will come to an end. The film starts out as rocky as the desert terrain on which Maher stands, clad in a sleek black suit, ready to take on modern religious extremists. Maher then appears driving in his car, engaged in a vain monologue that is unfortunately spliced throughout the film, causing it to lag. Luckily, most things that come out of Maher’s mouth tend to be downright hilarious—you just have to get past the fact that...
...militants, in the frontier district of Poonch. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went to India and Pakistan to step up diplomatic pressure on the antagonists. MIDDLE EAST Car Bomb Reignites West Bank Violence A suicide bomber drove a van packed with explosives into a bus filled with soldiers in Megiddo junction in northern Israel, killing 17 passengers and injuring 40 others. The death toll is the highest number within Israel since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's recent incursions into the West Bank. Israeli helicopter gunships opened fire with machine guns on the nearby West Bank town of Jenin and tanks...
...Megiddo is where the end of the world begins, according to Christian prophecy. It looked a little like that Wednesday, when a Palestinian sent by Islamic Jihad pulled his car alongside a bus loaded with Israeli passengers there, and detonated a bomb that turned it instantly into a flaming hulk, killing 16 aboard. Israel retaliated by sending tanks back into the West Bank city of Jenin and the offices of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Hours later they left, after blowing up three buildings in the compound. And while it may be premature to interpret the Megiddo attack as the opening...
...light of the ongoing security crisis, the Megiddo bombing was not unexpected. Israel has been on high alert for weeks, its security forces acutely aware of the continuing threat of terror strikes. An acceleration of diplomatic activity in pursuit of peace - as has been seen over the past week, with U.S. envoys in the region and President Bush's plans to meet the leaders of Egypt and Israel in the coming days - typically serves as a cue for radical elements to launch new outrages in the hope of sabotaging any progress towards a truce. But the sophistication of the attack...
...Megiddo attack highlights the limits of current mediation efforts by the U.S. and its allies. CIA director George Tenet has been meeting with Palestinian officials this week to press for the creation of a single PA security force dedicated to clamping down on terror attacks, and warning that if he fails to create an effective deterrent to terror attacks, Arafat will be left alone to face the wrath of Ariel Sharon. But the Palestinian leader insists that this will be possible only when the Israelis withdraw from PA territory. The PA roundly condmened the Megiddo attack, and ordered a roundup...