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...Laden runs his farms and his businesses in Sudan, criticizes the Saudi government from afar, and, he says, gives money for charities. He suggested a second meeting, this time at his small, walled farm on the bank of the Blue Nile south of Khartoum. At the farm, he made a point of claiming that the Egyptians had cited it as a terrorist camp. All that could be seen were a few horses, cows and goats. "Take pictures of whatever you like," bin Laden said with a smile...
Thousands of Sudanese soldiers and militiamen took to the streets of Khartoum, saying they were ready to defend their border from attack by Egypt. Earlier, Sudan threatened to withhold water from the Nile, Egypt's life line, if Cairo sends troops to the disputed Halaib region claimed by both countries. Tensions have been escalating since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused Sudan's leader Hassan Turabi of planning last week's assasination attempt in Ethiopia. In response to Sudan's threats, an angry Mubarak warned that Egypt would confront "those who play with fire in Khartoum...
...Valley of the Kings, in which Tomb 5 is located, is just across the Nile River from Luxor, Egypt. It's never exactly been off the beaten track. Tourism has been brisk in the valley for millenniums: graffiti scrawled on tomb walls proves that Greek and Roman travelers stopped here to gaze at the wall paintings and hieroglyphics that were already old long before the birth of Christ. Archaeologists have been coming as well, for centuries at least. Napoleon brought his own team of excavators when he invaded in 1798, and a series of expeditions in the 19th and early...
Festival of the Nile. Sanders Theatre...
...Croco'nile, written and illustrated by Roy Gerrard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $15), features a huge, toothy creature that serves as a pet to a couple of Egyptian kids: "In ancient Egypt, long ago,/ Beside the River Nile,/ A brother and a sister/ Found a baby crocodile." The kids stow away on a boat: "The naughty twosome stayed concealed/ Until the break of day./ By then their little village/ Was a hundred miles away...