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...road accident because we are too cool to buckle our seatbelts - is a risk that comes with this sort of work. But for a while Ansar al-Islam, a fundamentalist group that carved out an armed camp near the Iranian border, pointed its suicide bombers in our direction and succeeded in killing one journalist. In theory Ansar al-Islam was routed ten days ago, though I have my doubts (they lost at most half their fighters, so I expect they will be back sooner or later). I spent a week trying to get into the head of this dour, brutal...
...succeed in meeting the local Sufis. Unlike Wahhabis, who feel that the world has been going downhill since the seventh century, Sufis love life, poetry, cheerfully embrace other religions and distrust authority. Not surprisingly, they have a rough time when people like the Taliban, or Taliban clones like Ansar, are in power...
With Think Tank, Blur manage to summarize their entire career on a single genre-bending album. While they are still far from masters of electronica, they succeed with flying colors on most counts...
...smart bombs, will follow the missile barrage. Over the last 12 years, the U.S. military has gathered significant intelligence on Iraq's defense capabilities. These can, say experts, be taken out in days. "We want to prepare the way and quickly create an environment where our land forces can succeed," says Costello...
While The Hunted does succeed in being unusually beautiful, thanks to the cinematography of Caleb Deschanel, the film gives away its plot far too early to allow for an intelligent resolution of the Oedipal conflict set up in the opening scenes. The teacher-student/father-son conflict quickly evaporates into a series of increasingly improbable chase sequences in cars, sewers, rivers, trains and city streets. This is an action film, after all—not a philosophical puzzler pitched at Freudian intellects...