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...direct hand in the May bombings in Saudi Arabia and the August suicide assault in Indonesia. But Moroccan and French security officials say the synchronized bombings in Morocco in May were primarily a free-lance affair: the hastily prepared work of 14 raw young extremists from a Casablanca slum were plucked out of nowhere by local militants who had embraced the al-Qaeda ideology and got direction from Afghan-trained jihadists abroad...
Here's the basic setup: you've been captured by a demented movie director who plops you down in an abandoned slum infested with gang members. The gang members think they're hunting you. They are sadly mistaken. You are hunting them, with whatever weapons--a plastic bag, a sawed-off 12 gauge--you can lay your ruthless, muscular hands on. Meanwhile, the director gleefully captures the gore on film...
...meters Length of a banner depicting Thailand's Grand Palace set up to screen a Bangkok slum from the view of APEC summiteers...
...High on any itinerary will be the Lanes, a onetime slum now gentrified into an area of New Age shops, funky restaurants and painfully hip boutiques. Nearby Kemptown, a gay quarter, offers a similar mix but with hot pink accents. Meanwhile, gourmands will make for the award-winning Terre ? Terre, tel: (44-1273) 729051, reputed to be the best vegetarian restaurant in Britain, or the superlative French restaurant, One Paston Place, tel: (44-1273) 606960. And if you can't face catching the last train back to London, you have an array of hotels to choose from. Foremost among...
...most troubling recent development is the emergence of a Shiite challenge to the U.S. The firebrand young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose followers are particularly powerful in the slums of eastern Baghdad, is increasingly basing his own bid for power and influence among the Shiites on a strategy of confrontation with the U.S. Last Friday he declared his intention to form his own government, and he has called for the formation of a religious army - his forces clashed violently with U.S. soldiers in Baghdad last weekend, after which his supporters warned the U.S. to keep its troops...