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...stopped in the Iraqi capital last summer to have his leg amputated after he was wounded in Afghanistan. Iraq let him escape when Jordan sought his extradition. Since then, he has been fingered for involvement in the assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan and in the London ricin plot. A senior Administration source claims that Zarqawi met with Saddam's lieutenants in an effort to acquire chemical weapons...
...main plot is simple: two lovers live on opposite sides of al-Ram checkpoint; the man tries to be with the woman when he's not at his dying father's bedside. Since the man is played by Suleiman, 42, and his lover by his ex-lover, Palestinian journalist Manal Khader, and since Suleiman's father did die as he was writing the screenplay, this is clearly a kind of autobiographical satire. "Cinema is a form of striptease for me," says Suleiman. "I jot down very personal moments of everyday life when they tickle me. There is no message...
...author traces the genesis of the bomb plot to a tide of anti-Muslim violence that swept India in the early 1990s with the rise of the Hindu national Bharatiya Janata Party, which today leads India's ruling coalition. With remarkable detective work, Zaidi takes us inside the nexus between anti-India Pakistani secret agents and South Asia's Muslim underworld, which later proved so useful to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. We follow the conspiracy from a single telephone call that was made to Mafia supremo Dawood Ibrahim by his handlers in the Pakistani secret service...
Kennedy briefly sums up the plot: after the death of her mother, the end of her ballet career and her move from a quiet Midwestern town to Chicago’s South Side, there’s reason to think Sara (Stiles) might be jaded. It takes her friendship with Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas), and their mutual passion for dance, for Sara to release her sorrow and again pursue her dreams as a ballerina. In the end, they live happily ever, better and more worldly people for their love...
...most interesting thing about the The Recruit’s plot is the picture it gives of Hollywood armchair macho men imagining what your average armchair macho men would want in a movie about the CIA—all configurations of trick ’em, chase ’em, and shoot...