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Said Bahaji, 26 Moroccan-German Status: Sought by German police. Linked to hijacker Mohamed Atta, along with fellow fugitives, Zakariya Essabar and Ramzi Binalshibh. Believed to have been involved in planning Sept. 11 attacks. Left Germany for Pakistan on Sept. 3 and now believed to be in Afghanistan...
Zakariya Essabar, 24 Moroccan Status: Wanted. International warrant issued by German police. Shared the same address in Hamburg as hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi. He allegedly helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks but failed to get a U.S. entry visa. Pictured in wedding photo with hijackers...
...reverse. She is a rebellious 5-year-old in frilly dresses when she is adopted by King Mohammed V to become a favorite daughter's perpetual playmate. For the next 11 years, until well after King Hassan II succeeds to the throne, she lives the incredible life of a Moroccan princess. Beautiful palaces become her playgrounds; her every wish is a servant's command. She rides horseback with royalty, giggles through Cabinet meetings and travels on state visits. She greets so many foreign dignitaries it makes her yawn. As a spoiled teenager, she cavorts with jet setters and fancies becoming...
Religious tolerance in our country isn't a political fashion," Moroccans like to say, "it's simply the way we live." André Azoulay illustrates the point. A counselor to King Mohammed VI, he is the only Jew who holds an influential position anywhere in the Arab world. Through history, Moroccan kings and sultans officially "protected" Jews and hired "court Jews" at the palace. But Azoulay, the palace makes clear, is on the payroll as an able patriot, not as a recipient of religious patronage...
...work by the two leads. But narrative implausibilities assure that Midnight Fly ... doesn't. Really, what are the odds that one woman's husband will be the other's lover? One in a billion? To court further incredulity, the film has Miki kidnapped to become a slave in a Moroccan bordello! "Being in love," Miki says earlier, "is like drinking perfume." Alas, the movie never achieves that aura of toxic intoxication...