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...Afghanistan, they are making an army from enemies. During the country's civil war nearly two decades ago, Ahmad Zai Waris and Zubir Ahmad fought on opposite sides of the lines, Waris heading a mujahedin group determined to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan and Ahmad as a soldier fighting for the Soviet-backed government. Now Waris and Ahmad live together on a military base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, hard against the Pakistan border. They often stay up late talking about guerrilla tactics of the past and how to use them against their new, shared adversary...
...arresting earlier Hamas leaders. Friends and Hamas colleagues say Haniya is soft-spoken and a good listener. He is described as a man with few enemies, which makes him a rarity in the politics of the Middle East. Haniya and Abbas are said to like each other. But as Zai Abu Amar, a legislator with ties to Hamas, says: "This is Haniya's first job in politics?and it's as Prime Minister." Within Hamas, say Israeli intelligence sources, Haniya?a close aide to Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas who was killed by an Israeli air strike...
...shaken to the ground by an earthquake that registered 8.7 on the Richter scale. Unlike the quake that struck in December, this one did not create a devastating tsunami. But in Nias, just 70 km from the epicenter, death and destruction were instantaneous. "Everything happened so fast," says Nasima Zai, 42, a shopkeeper in Gunung Sitoli, Nias' largest town. Nasima was in bed when her house started to shake. She woke her husband, grabbed their two young children, and tried to make it down three flights of stairs. Floors and walls collapsed, the lights went off, and the family found...
...University in Tokyo. "After 9/11, politics in some way had to be very speedy. But voters are realizing that speedy can be sloppy." If Okada can keep the DPJ's momentum going, he may soon have reason to replace his current parliamentary motto with another classic Japanese saying: Teki zai teki sho-The right man for the right...
...Zai's real name is Vic Zhou, and he is one of the four members of the Taiwanese acting-singing sensation F4 that is rapidly building an Asia-wide following. O.K., so the guys can't really act. Or sing. And they can barely dance. But they're a boy group, for chrisakes: Zhou, Vanness Wu, Jerry Yen and Ken Zhu are only required to have nice smiles, hot bodies and fantastic hair. These things they have in spades?and not a tattoo or pierced body part among them. In Taiwan, these squeaky clean little love boys are being held...