Time to let the Qat out of the bag…
Out of the country since last fall, it’s been an experience for me to return and see what’s up here these days. Mad cow, West Nile, SARS. It’s all so dizzying.
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London Free Press
No wonder they claw their way out of jail
Just when the Yankee cat turns its back to focus on Iraq, the Yemeni mice go out to play. A gang of al-Qaeda-type jailbirds, including two held as key suspects in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, have apparently vanished from a jail in Aden for good.
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Cultural bridges must run both ways
One of the things I’ve discovered as a part-time resident of the Middle East is how easily things such as cultural nuances can hide in plain view.
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Arab fears for region have substance
If truth is the first casualty of war, one has to wonder what that does in the socalled battle over hearts and minds of people, not only in Iraq, but across the Arab world and beyond.
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All of us can supply an alternative to war
Listen to the words of a cargo handler at London’s airport, spoken while he cleared freight I shipped to Yemen last year: “Those people are backwards and they don’t want to change. As far as I’m concerned, I couldn’t care less what happens to them.”
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Tolerance, anyone?
Chalk up a victory for misguided tolerance in the recent flap with Lebanon’s ambassador to Canada, Raymond Baaklini.
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Giving up life for the foolish notion of love
It didn’t take long for what started out like a normal day in our household to turn into the day from hell.
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From here, our system is not so pure
Life in Yemen is different. Still, a colleague surprised me not long ago when I invited some boys from the office for an afternoon getaway at a local recreation centre.
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