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...turf. His chosen site was just a kilometer or so away from the madrasah where a one-eyed cleric named Mullah Mohammed Omar launched a movement of young religious zealots in 1994. Within two years the Taliban controlled nearly all of Afghanistan, and Omar had forged an alliance with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda forces. But the bomber chose the wrong place. For months, U.S. soldiers have been busy in Omar's village, digging wells, building schools, handing out medicine-even helping to restore the tomb of a Muslim holy man. The troops' efforts to win the hearts...
...More importantly, China became an invaluable partner in addressing the North Korean nuclear crisis that flared up the following year when the Hermit Kingdom decided to reclaim its place in the headlines from Osama bin Laden by declaring that it had already gone nuclear. Lacking any palatable military options for dealing with Pyongyang but reluctant to accede to its demand for direct talks with Washington, the Bush administration came to rely on six-party talks involving itself, North Korea, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea as the forum to negotiate with Pyongyang. Getting the North Koreans to attend, much less...
...haven't been able to find out who shot Tupac or Biggie, and we haven't been able to find Osama. So far, the only two criminals we've been able to catch are Martha Stewart and Chong." --JIMMY KIMMEL
...combining personal narrative and a backdrop of political tension, Kaabour’s film could be seen as a public service announcement against intolerance as well as a slice of life cinematographic exploration of character. While Osama El-Demerdash, eager and willing to leave Canada, visibly shakes with frustration at pending arrest charges for a political demonstration, fellow Egyptian Osama El-Naggar plays poker with friends in a local hookah bar and thinks of French as his first language...
...nuanced elements of what ethnicity and nationality mean to individuals, rather than making sweeping cultural generalizations. The filming of quotidian events of the lives of his subjects represents the natural integration of Arabic and Western cultures; most notable is the Islamic basketball league in which the devout young Muslim Osama Dorios plays...