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...invited Hisham Mikki, the head of the official Palestinian television station, to sit with him in his empty restaurant, smoking a water pipe and looking out over the Mediterranean. Mikki came back from exile with Arafat and amassed a fortune from corrupt deals. He began to puff on a nargileh filled with apple-scented Bahraini tobacco. Barely was the pipe lit when a man walked quickly toward him. Before Mikki could move, the gunman killed him with a three-shot combination known to hit men as "Mozambique style"--a bullet to the forehead and one in each breast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palestinians: Torn Apart | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

They declared that he is an inveterate smoker. When he cannot get his 100 cigarets a day, because of the blockade, he puffs for hours at a gold nargileh filled with rose water and engraved with an inscription from the Koran: "Take but little; it is best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: In the Riff | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

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