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Springtime is a festive season in Egypt, especially in Dahab, a laid-back Red Sea resort famous for its scuba divers and hippies. But terrorists broke up the party last week, setting off three explosions along Dahab's beachside promenade, killing 18 people, including four foreigners. Two days later, two suicide bombers attacked an international peacekeeping base and an Egyptian police vehicle in the northern Sinai peninsula but killed only themselves. The Dahab attacks - the third major strike on Red Sea resorts in the past 18 months - came as President Hosni Mubarak prepared to welcome political and business leaders...
...into another room, with prayer mats and copies of the Koran. "Come, let us pray," al-Zarqawi said. Bakr says they prayed for about three hours, with al-Zarqawi reciting from memory several long surahs, or chapters from the Koran, in a whisper. From time to time, he broke into sobs and moans, babbling incoherently, as if in a trance. Afterward, Bakr was asked to join al-Zarqawi and some of his closest aides in a discussion on the life of the Prophet Muhammad that went on until dawn. It wasn't until morning that al-Zarqawi gave Bakr...
...king there.” The civil war between the Maoists and the royal army has gone on in Nepal for over a decade.“The 12 years of democracy that followed were unfortunately marked by corruption, nepotism, and mismanagement of government, and the civil war broke out,” Basnyat said. Pro-democratic protests in 1990 similar to the current ones led King Birendra, who came to Harvard for a year in 1967 and was a resident of Quincy House, to give up his executive powers and turn the country into a constitutional monarchy modeled after...
...that came apart in the early hours of April 17 when a two-day firefight between local insurgents on one side and Iraqi soldiers and American GIs on the other broke out. Though the encounter was minimized by top U.S. military officials, the battle appears to have been a more serious outbreak of sectarian violence, between well-organized units of the insurgency and what military sources suspect was a Shi'ite death squad linked to the U.S.-backed Iraqi government...
...those insurgent fighters confirmed these suspicions in a clandestine interview with TIME. Abu Marwan, an insurgent footsoldier from the Ansar al-Sunnah network, said that once the fighting broke out, his cell, along with those from other guerrilla groups, was brought in from surrounding quarters as reinforcements. Adhamiya is a safe haven for any number of anti-American organizations, which share intelligence and weapons and coordinate their activities. According to insurgent sources, the groups agreed that only sparing attacks would be launched locally so as not to attract U.S. attention. American brigade commander Col. Thomas Vail says the district...