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RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN |
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THE NATION |
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Published: 05/15/2006 |
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Behind Enemy Lines |
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In the days following Adolf Hitler's suicide in 1945, amid the rubble of Allied aerial bombardment, the Red Army's westward advance and Nazi surrender, a company of American infantrymen made their way up Munich's Prinzregentenstrasse, toward the late Fuhrer's personal residence. Hitler had owned a second-floor luxury apartment in Munich... ///continue/// |
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THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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Published: 04/28/2006 |
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Blowback in Africa |
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Ever since Chad gained independence 46 years ago, it has been a world-class model of political dysfunction. In the 1970s, Chad's president, Francois Tombalbaye, compelled civil servants to renounce Western customs, undergo a tribal initiation rite known as yondo and profess belief in a nationalist creed he called Chaditude. He was executed in 1975...
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THE VILLAGE VOICE |
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Published: 01/31/2006 |
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Hunting the Bin Laden of the Sahara |
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In the early months of 2004, a lone convoy of Toyota pickup trucks and SUVs raced eastward across the southern extremities of the Sahara. The convoy, led by a wanted Islamic militant named Ammari Saifi, had just slipped from Mali into northern Niger, where the desert rolls out into an immense, flat pan of gravelly sand... ///continue/// |
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