Word: roadblocks
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...public increasingly distrustful of government propaganda and fearful that their rulers no longer have their best interests in mind. Intensifying this unease is a vigorous rumor mill that turns careless speculation into doomsday fact. "We don't know whom to trust anymore," says one peasant manning a makeshift roadblock he and his fellow villagers have set up to keep outsiders from entering his hometown. "We have to protect ourselves...
...rejected even Barak's more limited offer at Camp David the previous summer. Although Sharon has spoken recently of the need for "painful concessions" to achieve peace, few Israeli analysts believe he is willing to go nearly as far as his predecessor. Which suggests that even once the Arafat roadblock is cleared, publication of the road map may be only the beginning of a long and painful journey whose duration is far greater than the three years envisaged by its authors...
...swift victory?and the early success militiamen have had in temporarily sidetracking the march to Baghdad?is chipping away at the aura of American military invincibility. It has happened before, in Somalia in 1993 for example, but never was there this level of round-the-clock coverage of each roadblock and minor setback. And never before were there networks that tailored their broadcasts as platforms for American righteousness (Fox News Channel, most bombastically) or the U.S.'s tactical and moral fallibility (al-Jazeera and al-Arabia...
...heavy machinegun fire from the Ansar lines on a daily basis. On Monday night, TIME's correspondent had sheltered with a peshmerga frontline unit through a four-hour barrage. But the resort to suicide tactics shifts the boundaries. Some of the soldiers present during the attack at the Zamaqi roadblock claim a suicide bomber struck the Halabja bazaar last year. However, a Kurdish political officer assigned to oversee the Ansar front, Burhan Saeed Sofi from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party (which controls the Kurdish region's eastern half) says that attack had involved a bomb planted in advance. "This...
...Hoping to leapfrog this roadblock, Murdoch has been currying favor with Beijing ever since his Star satellite network, which runs nine channels in China, got a foothold on the mainland. The relationship got off to a rocky start in 1993, after Murdoch offended authorities by declaring that satellite broadcasting threatens "totalitarian regimes everywhere." Since then, Murdoch has chosen not to irritate the Communist Party. In 1999 he ordered HarperCollins, News Corp.'s publishing arm, to drop a book by former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten because it was critical of Beijing and, shortly after, dismissed the Dalai Lama...