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...plentiful supply. When Abu Ali's network runs low on resources, it turns to a man identified only as "the Emir," a shadowy loyalist leader who summons Abu Ali to meetings at irregular intervals. "We are not rich men," Abu Ali says, "but we have everything." Old Soviet surface-to-air missiles that had been stockpiled by Saddam's regime go for upwards of $1,000 apiece on the black market, yet Abu Ali's organization has them in abundance. It also has access to a pipeline of weapons flowing across Iraq's borders. Another major Baghdad cell leader, Mohammed...
...airport to a capital city do you have to wait for an irate shepherd and his flock to pass. But then Bishkek is no ordinary capital. It's the Big Smoke of Kyrgyzstan - a country that makes up in character what it lacks in vowels. If the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia were in a beauty contest, Kyrgyzstan would win. This becomes obvious as you rumble down 30 km of tarmac into Bishkek. The snow-capped Tien Shan Mountains rear up like a tsunami. But unlike Nepal or other lauded upland destinations, this country and its capital...
Writing on the monks’ journey, Pravda—the former organ of the banned Communist Party of the Soviet Union, now the organ of, um, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation—wrote that negotiations would happen in “Harvard State University, Boston, US.” Hey—if the monks want to spice up their social lives a little, harvard-parties.com-style, far be it from me to stand in their way. But please, I wondered, could they stop yammering about those silly bells...
...bells’ tones since Herbert Hoover was president and Ordzhonikidze was minister of industry, but Harvard students trying to get their z’s after a hard Saturday night know all too well how jarring that Eastern tuning can be. The monks have already shouted post-Soviet hosannas to the heavens upon playing the bells briefly—but before they waste too much energy on their vaguely Quixotic quest, the monks should see if it changes their minds to sit in the Lowell courtyard and let the bell-boys (and girls) do their thing...
...have no doubt I’ll go back now,” he said, noting that he wants to partake in the opportunity for change and modernization of a developing former Soviet Republic...