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...reaction, the Nepali capital erupted in the worst violence in memory as Hindus took revenge on the country's million-strong Muslim minority. Mobs stormed and set fire to mosques, including Nepal's biggest, the Jama Masjid, burned the Koran in the street and built barricades of burning tires. Rioters ransacked Muslim businesses, tried to storm the Egyptian embassy and torched the offices of airlines of four Muslim countries. Shops, offices and schools shut down, and the government imposed a curfew in the capital and two other cities. When police opened fire on a Kathmandu mob, two people died...
...become a case study in weighing the value of a show of strength, and Fallujah is the fulcrum. The city exploded in March, when a mob killed four U.S. private security contractors and played with their charred bodies like beach balls. The President reacted as expected. This would not be his Somalia. On the night of the killings, at 6:15, General John Abizaid, head of U.S. Central Command, called the White House residence to give word that within 72 hours there would be a "specific and overwhelming attack to restore justice," as a senior Administration official...
...magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. The property's owner, Nicola La Barbera, and Spera's doctor, Vincenzo Di Noto, were also arrested, and both later served time for Mafia association. But there was no sign of Provenzano. Authorities may never get that close to him again. A turncoat Mob informant later confirmed that Provenzano, who's been on the lam in Sicily for the past four decades, had indeed been in Mezzojuso that morning. But the capo dei capi was some 200 m up the hill in a smaller shack when cops arrived at the main house. So Provenzano...
...January 1993, Riina was captured - some speculate that Provenzano tipped off the cops to his whereabouts - and remains behind bars. Provenzano rose to the top of the Mob hierarchy and, despite a third-grade education, transformed the organization into a less bloody, more efficient economic machine. He is credited with ironing out internal rivalries among local bosses to better divvy up the Mafia's illegal bidding for public-works contracts. It has earned him one more nickname: "the Accountant." Provenzano manages Cosa Nostra by means of terse notes typed onto small, tightly folded pieces of paper, known as pizzini, which...
...scary day, the skeleton of a Japanese soldier. After watching a sailor pinch a bar girl on the bottom, he tries out that sign of affection on his family's elderly Chinese maid, with disastrous results. When his father gets into a minor road accident, an angry mob gathers?until Martin, then 9, stuns everyone into silence with a burst of newly acquired Cantonese obscenities...