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...American ex-surfer, who took up full-time volunteer work with the International Organization for Migration after he participated in relief efforts following the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, has found his work especially frustrating in the devastated Neelum Valley, located in the Himalayan mountains in the Pakistani-held portion of disputed Kashmir. After the quake, George, 49, became a familiar figure in the remote valley as he walked trails leading processions of porters toting pickaxes, shovels, bales of wire and plastic tarpaulins?the tools needed to build improvised shelters for survivors whose homes had been shaken into rubble...
...perfect storm of relief obstructions," says Thomas Miller, chief executive of Plan International, an aid agency helping children. "You have landslides, snow and no roads to reach the people way up in the mountains." Further complicating relief efforts is the danger that militant Islamic groups operating from camps in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir could resume their long-simmering war for control of the region, where an uneasy cease-fire has held since...
...into their pockets after a string of disasters?from the 2004 tsunami to Hurricane Katrina. Action Contre la Faim, a French agency with branches worldwide, says that in the three weeks after the tsunami, it raised $475,000 in cash from American donors. In the same period after the Pakistani quake, it collected only $47,000. So far, donor nations have contributed just $85 million of the $181 million the WFP says it needs for emergency airlifts this winter...
...dipping to -8?C, shelter is an immediate concern. There aren't enough tin sheets, a construction staple, to go around. At higher elevations, only about 10% of residents have them, says Sardar Rafiq of the U.K.-based NGO Islamic Relief. Many do have tents?the Pakistani government has distributed more than 245,000 of them?but they will be "useless," says Rafiq, "in the case of snow and rain. People cannot warm themselves in them...
Hayatt, a 30-year-old Pakistani, says he never had any trouble with the police in five years of living in Athens. That is until, he claims, several Greek and British intelligence officers kidnapped him a week after the July 7 bombings in London. "What happened," he stutters in halting Greek, "was frightening." Hayatt alleges that he was hooded and bundled into a van with six others, then "taken to a nice house about 30 minutes from Athens. I was asked about what I knew of the London bombings. I said, 'Nothing. Just what I saw on TV.'" His captors...