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...Francisco and other U.S. cities. The neighborhood is getting crowded as well: the government of Abu Dhabi--next door to Dubai--has just launched not one but two carriers: Etihad Airlines and low-fare Gulf Traveller. The emirate of Sharjah last year started Air Arabia. Doha-based Qatar Airlines, meanwhile, is improving and expanding. Then there is the reality that Dubai is in the middle of a volatile region--and is still apparently connected to terrorism, as shown by the arrest there of an al-Qaeda operative in September...
...hero of any other film. (Rushing resigned his commission this year, joining the Veterans? antiwar brigade Operation Truth and saying of the Administration?s purported evidence of Saddam?s WMDs, ?I felt personally duped.?) In the other half, the film focuses on the station?s headquarters in Qatar, where its program director, Samir Khader, rails eloquently at U.S. media, then adds, ?Mind you, if I were offered a job at Fox News, I?d take...
Sultan’s current whereabouts are unknown, although the Boston Globe reported on Thursday that a Harvard official said he had moved to Qatar. He did not respond to e-mail requests for comment from The Crimson...
Yang Hua's passport is stamped with visas that would alarm immigration clerks around the world. He showed up in Indonesia two days after the Bali disco bombing in 2002. He has logged trips on a moment's notice to Iran, Yemen and Qatar as well as the U.S., Australia, Canada, England and Brazil. And Yang doesn't try to hide the substances contained in little glass vials that he brings home from his travels. In fact, they're lined up on the windowsill of his Beijing office, affixed with labels like SAUDI SWEET. Yang, it turns out, works...
...political calculation within earshot of a reporter. While Bush spoke in Toledo in the late afternoon, his political aides discussed setting a trap for Kerry. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice briefed Bush throughout the day on the details of the tape, and Chase Untermeyer, the U.S. ambassador to Qatar, tried to persuade al-Jazeera not to run it. Once aides were sure the video was being aired, however, Bush wrote down some remarks that included Senator Kerry. "We knew that Kerry couldn't resist responding more than he should on these issues," said a senior White House aide...