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Free Email: Get World Watch Delivered Protest Crushed ZIMBABWE A week of protests against President Robert Mugabe fizzled out after a merciless government crackdown. Police, soldiers and pro-Mugabe gangs beat up opponents. Two people died, at least 400 were arrested and dozens more filled hospitals in the capital, Harare...
It was only after five hours, and much prevarication, that the insurer authorized treatment. "I don't even want to think about what would have happened if I'd been critically wounded," Steinmuller says. And the upshot? Steinmuller recently received an e-mail from the hospital telling him that the...
That's in stark contrast to what happened after the Khobar Towers bombing, which killed 19 American military personnel and wounded 372 others. An agent who worked on that case recalls, "The Saudis went out and grabbed everything in sight before we got there. They just let us amuse ourselves...
In a city virtually without civil authority since Saddam Hussein's fall, many districts have organized vigilante night patrols to scare off looters and shooters. But these victims received no help: no phones work; no police patrol the beat. None of the gawkers even lent a hand as we tried...
Mirza, a singer and a Kurd, is an old man with a fierce white moustache and a fierce will. He's still in love with the wife, Hanareh, who left him for his best friend two decades earlier. Now, in the aftermath of Gulf War I, she has sent word...