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...called the arrests "political," and accused the government of exploiting Djindjic's death to discredit the opposition. Fire Alert RUSSIA Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov ordered a fire-safety survey of all Russian schools following the deaths of 54 children in two separate school blazes. Twenty-two children died in northern Siberia and 32 died at a boarding school for the deaf in the southern republic of Dagestan. Due to chronic underfunding, many Russian schools are poorly maintained; last year there were 700 school fires. Sand Trap ALGERIA More than 1,000 soldiers and border guards joined the search...
Days after Kirkuk was freed, much of the city was missing: furniture and air conditioners from government buildings, beds from the hospitals, even the daffodils in front of the Ministry of Northern Iraq. Nearby, the Pepsi bottling plant was in flames. But one thing was perfectly intact: the machinery around the city's oil fields, which produce about a third of Iraq's oil exports. American soldiers, who were almost absent from the city where so much looting was going on, were out in force around the adjacent oil fields, which account for a third of Iraq's oil exports...
...have a looting problem. But its multiethnic character lends a much greater possibility of greater violence. The Americans delegated responsibility for the city to the Kurdish forces that stormed the city Thursday morning, chasing out the meager Iraqi forces without a fight. But within hours Kurds from the far northern cities of Erbil and Suleymaniya were streaming into the city with empty pickup trucks. In some places the Peshmerga Kurdish forces were vainly trying to stop the looting, while they actively participated in others. Arab and Turkish residents claimed they were being targeted. One Turk who whose car was stolen...
LAWLESS HEART. Friends and family converge on a small town in northern England for a funeral in Lawless Heart. Stuart, the deceased, was a young gay man who leaves behind a healthy bank account and successful restaurant when he drowns off the Isle of Man. Nick, his partner, and Dan, his brother-in-law, immediately begin competing over the restaurant. Both are sidetracked by unexpected relationships: Nick with his first woman, and Dan with an inappropriately frisky female guest at Stuart’s funeral. The film’s structure is initially somewhat confusing-it revisits the funeral...
When U.S. Special Forces teams went into Afghanistan looking for allies they found a battle-tested, hardened army of veterans waiting for them. All the Northern Alliance needed was leadership, modern communications and the support of devastating American firepower. Within a couple of months, Special Ops troops lead Northern Alliance fighters down from their mountain strongholds to sweep away the Taliban and enter Kabul, a success that has become the paradigm of how Special Forces and Air Power in concert can conquer a country. Now the Special Forces are making a similar attempt in Iraq. What they have created...