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...streets which had been closed by police, desperate to leave as soon as possible. Khaled Barakat, the Egyptian manager of a water sports shop, stood dazed and staring past a police cordon at the remains of the marketplace strewn with glass, burned rubber and car parts. "It's shock," he said. "I've been living here 15 years and I can't believe it." He said he worries the pristine resort town on the tip of the Sinai peninsula will never be the same. "Everyone always says Sharm is the safest place in Egypt. What will they...
...bomb exploded fifty miles from my base. At first, we had no idea of what had caused the terrific shock and the awesome drone. We refused to accept the fact that Japan was barely hanging on, and pretending to be unshaken by the bomb, we went about our tasks with as much zeal as before...
...mainland seemed particularly ill-timed. Beijing's relations with Washington have deteriorated in recent months over trade frictions, fears of a Chinese military buildup, and concerns that a bid by Chinese oil company CNOOC to buy U.S. energy firm Unocal threatens national security. So it came as a shock when People's Liberation Army (P.L.A.) Major General Zhu Chenghu, 53, told a group of foreign reporters in Beijing that "if the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition onto the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons." He warned that...
...chief, says he hopes the tragedy of July 7 has jolted the "99.99% of the Muslim community who don't want any of this" into greater vigilance. "Bombers need supporters. It's the community that defeats terror, not the police," he said. As Britain's Muslims coped with the shock of finding killers in their midst, shame and disgust were mixed, inevitably, with fury. "You whites, you're all thieves! You're all the same!" a Muslim acquaintance of the suspects yelled at a Time reporter in Leeds. "You and George thieving Bush, you're all the same...
...reason he?s on the list because he?s supposed to be a shock jock. Here?s the bad news: he doesn?t shock anybody anymore. Thanks to Howard...this kind of sludge just washes over us. And that?s the danger. That?s the serious part of the book. I?m not the Church Lady. I don?t care what people say in private; I don?t care what they do in private. But we?re talking about the public arena...