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...Last week the age of terror caught up with Nepal. On Aug. 31 the Iraqi extremist group Ansar al-Sunna announced that it had killed 12 Nepalese migrant workers kidnapped outside Ramadi 11 days earlier. A grisly video showed two militants slitting one hostage's throat and holding up his severed head before they went on to shoot the other 11 in their heads. The group's statement admonished Nepal "and other lapdogs of the Jews and the Christians," adding: "Do not sympathize with this impure group. They have left their country and traveled thousands of kilometers to work with...
There might seem few places less likely to be scorched by the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, than Nepal. Outside Kathmandu, the Himalayan kingdom exists in a timeless trance of mountains and road-free valleys all but lost to the present day. True, the country faces a very serious internal-security threat?a Maoist rebellion?but even that menace underscores the fact that Nepal is fighting the battles of the last century...
...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...
...abducted in July were released by their captors last week after a ransom of $500,000 was paid by their employer, the Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company. But a group calling itself the Army of Ansar al-Sunna announced last week that it had executed 12 hostages from Nepal abducted in August, accusing the country's leadership of assisting U.S. forces in Iraq. But French journalists had been largely spared. "The few times French journalists were [apprehended], they always released us because we are French," says Sammy Ketz, Baghdad bureau chief for Agence France-Presse. The French government tried...
...program has been a success in southern Nepal's Bagmara Forest, where the WWF and the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation helped local people set up a tree nursery. Tigers returned to the area, and locals are able to harvest timber, fuel wood and grasses according to a strict management plan. Local people also benefit directly from the return of wildlife. They collected about $73,000 last year from tourists who came to see tigers, elephants and rhinos in their forest...