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...very touchy, since some of it comes from countries not openly allied with the U.S. "Several Middle East partners have either helped obtain information," says a senior Administration official, "or they are giving refuge to people they are getting this from." One especially shy source would be the Syrian government. Sources tell TIME that Syria has given the U.S. information about contacts between al-Qaeda and the Iraqi regime gleaned from a suspected al-Qaeda operative in its custody...
With garlands of colored lights decorating Baghdad for the holy month of Ramadan, the city is engulfed more by holiday spirit than war fever. After the U.N. eased sanctions against Iraq in 1996, local markets grew flush with everything from Korean TVs and Japanese cars to Syrian trousers and Egyptian milk. For reasons unknown, the government recently gave families an extra month's supply of such rationed items as rice and beans. Millions of dollars of illicit revenues are sloshing through the economy, thanks to oil smuggled across the borders with Jordan, Turkey and Iran. Iraqis are thus enjoying...
Even the good stuff is shown in that museum way that kills the fun. The items are presented in such a detached fashion, they lose all sense of purpose: a glass-encased exhibit of S&M paraphernalia looks more like a human-rights group presentation of Syrian secret-police torture instruments from the '70s. The porn they do show--stag films from 1915 projected on a wall, videos of '70s and '80s porn stars--are recontextualized into some strange National Geographic special. Even the sober-looking museum guards aren't impressed. "It's calmer here," says Jasmine Pallet, 22, comparing...
...Even the good stuff is shown in that museum way that kills the fun. The items are presented in such a detached fashion, they lose all sense of purpose: a glass-encased exhibit of S&M paraphernalia looks more like a human-rights group presentation of Syrian secret-police torture instruments from the '70s. The porn they do show - stag films from 1915 projected on a wall, videos of '70s and '80s porn stars - are recontextualized into some strange National Geographic special. Even the sober-looking museum guards aren't impressed. "It's calmer here," says Jasmine Pallet, 22, comparing...
...could die from reactions to the vaccine if everyone were inoculated 60% of Indonesia's 4 million civil servants are unqualified for their jobs, says the country's administrative reforms minister 15 kilograms of weapons-grade uranium was seized on Saturday by Turkish police in a province near the Syrian and Iraqi borders 23% of workers surveyed think news is the most addictive content available on the Internet, 5% more than pornography, according to an online poll $528,000 is the high bid offered for a guitar Jimi Hendrix burned on stage in 1967 and which Frank Zappa later restored...