Word: mubarak
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...With reporting by Mubarak Dahir/St. Louis
...follow-up, but there's a lot of news competing for limited space these days. Also, even a news junkie can't read everything. More and more often, I find myself reading a disturbing story in the newspaper--for instance, a story in the New York Times headlined MUBARAK VISITS SYRIA IN EFFORT TO DEFUSE CRISIS WITH TURKEY--and then realizing weeks later that I have no idea how the story turned...
...Until Mubarak went to defuse the crisis, around the time the pigeons disappeared, I hadn't realized that the Turks and the Syrians weren't getting along; that was part of what made the story so disturbing. The Turks used to be pretty good about waiting their turn to become involved in an international crisis: every five or six years they'd have a flare-up with the Greeks over Cyprus, and in between they'd manage to content themselves with some routine Kurd oppression...
...more. Less than two months after Mubarak's visit, the Turks got so mad at the Italians that everyone seemed to forget what the beef with the Syrians had been about. When I tried to remember, what came to mind instead was reading at around the same time about a crisis between Iran and Afghanistan--two countries that you'd think might be bound together by a shared affection for arresting women who show their faces in public. I couldn't remember reading about anybody going to defuse it. Did that mean it was still fused...
...victims were mainly poor Tanzanians and Kenyans going about their normal daily activities. In no way have the perpetrators gained anything. The suspects are Muslims, and I wonder whose teachings they are following. Muhammad's? Definitely not. He practiced Islam the religion of peace. Please--peace, not terror. MUBARAK BIDMOS Pretoria, South Africa...