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...caeus? Ten years ago, almost ten—ten years ago, he had left Mytilene, the wars sweeping him away. Ten years we had lived with fear creeping about ou... ...Kleis never knew her father. He is one of a thousand dead, because of the wars. If he were here, she would not think of slipping off at night. She lo... ...a crying woman when the fog comes: some say she cries for our dead in the wars, some say it’s for those lost at sea: I have often seen her, head bow... ... turbans on their heads, prodded camels, heavily laden animals. Were they Syrians? Somewhere along the way I met a blind man led by a boy. The sun s... ...d the animals roar while I worked. Cloux. Cage. Our incessant feuds, wars, brutalities, our pettiness, have rotted our minds. For years I hav... ...g, sang as we drifted, sang and rowed. We sailed far away from the odious wars, from weaponry, forts, and death. Rimini’s gulls, black-tipped gulls...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...ved as trying to impose its narcissistic pseudo-culture upon a world exhausted by wars hot and cold and corrupted by vacuous materialism. Recent a... ...d) Mahan doctrines. Wilson's Fourteen Points brought the USA nothing but two World Wars and a Cold War thereafter. It is time to disengage. Note -... ...bly put himself in a straitened circumstance someday. When one indulges oneself in wars of aggression under the pretext of 'self security' will pos... ...tself. It will definitely rejuvenate religious thought and cultural discourse. All wars do. Aren't you overdoing it? After all, al-Qaida is just a ... ...orld. According to this, all kinds of civilian restrictions and pre-emptive foreign wars become justified for the sake of 'national security'. Secon... ...ite unpatriotic. The Arabs form the hard core of Al-Qaida. They are the Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi etc. professional revolutionaries and terrorists w... ..."Washington Post", 200,000 barrels a day flow through the re-opened pipeline to the Syrian port of Banias - in breach of UN Resolution 986 (i.e., th... ...ough a peace accord. The dispute over precious water sources is embedded in Turkish-Syrian topography and is, therefore, permanent. It may have bee... ... budget law calling upon the administration to exclude French, Russian, German and Syrian companies from reconstruction contracts and to bar their ...

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... propaganda and in the seeding of armed bands in Macedonia prior to the two Balkan wars. Its biggest achievement was probably the inception of nume... ...ivilization was at stake. This was the background to the onslaught of the Balkan Wars. Serbia collaborated with the more potent of its potent... ...Bulgaria struck a bargain to expel the Ottomans from Europe (see above, the Balkan Wars). Thus, with the field narrowing and getting more crowded, ... ...conversants knew it, came to a shrieking end. When German planes were pulverizing Warsaw, Yugoslavia declared its mock-neutrality. Everybody knew ... ...ct, let us consider an example. Study the couple "I am an Israeli" and "I am not a Syrian". Assuming that there are 220 countries and territories, ... ...ry X, which is not Israel)". You can safely derive the true statement "I am not a Syrian" from the statement "I am an Israeli". Can I derive the ... ...eli". Can I derive the statement "I am an Israeli" from the statement "I am not a Syrian"? Not with any certainty. The negative statement "I am n... ...try X, which is not India)", including the statement "I am an Israeli". "I am not a Syrian and I am a citizen of ... (220 possibilities)" Negative ... ...sraeli") immediately generates 220 certain negative statements (such as "I am not a Syrian"). One's positive self-definition automatically excludes ...

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...e of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian. 28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, wer... ... draweth near: go ye not therefore after them. 9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to ...

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...oloured mantle drawn over her head, exactly as Judah is represented in the Syrian med- als as seated under her palm-tree. I was infected with the fear... ...rvice. The old general, however, who had been regularly bred in the German wars, stuck to his own opin- ion, and gave out in orders that the first Hig... ...ps which his father had taken from some En- glish officer during the civil wars. The clergyman disengaged them from his sleeves. “My mother!” he said ...

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... father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the ... ... the army which followed them. 20 And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Benhadad the king of Syria escap... ...e king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter. 22 And the prophet came to the king of Isra... ... And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. 27 And the children... ...dren of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country. 28 And there came a man of God, and spake unto ... ... spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the v...

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...and laid to heart, I should say a better kind than that of those miserable Syrian Sects, with their vain janglings about Homoiousion and Homoousion, t... ...Reality, direct from the great Heart of Nature once more. Arab idolatries, Syrian formulas, whatso- ever was not equally real, had to go up in flame,—... ... paroxysm, to cast the falsehoods out of me, and be cured and live?— GREAT WARS, contentions and disunion followed out of this Reformation; which last... ...ve no farther trade!—Luther and his Protestantism is not respon- sible for wars; the false Simulacra that forced him to protest, they are responsible.... ...st as long as it can.— OF LUTHER I WILL ADD NOW, in reference to all these wars and bloodshed, the noticeable fact that none of them began so long as ... ...e, is again exhibited in the history of these T wo. WE HAVE HAD MANY CIVIL WARS in England; wars of Red and White Roses, wars of Simon de Montfort; wa...

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...rches into our art as connected with those early and eminent art- ists the Syrian assassins in the period of the Crusaders; that his work had been for... ...once in Book XX. sect. v. c. 8, of his Antiquities; once in Book I. of his Wars: but in sect. 10 of the chapter first cited you will find a particular... ...great trunk arteries between two mighty realms, 4 and haunted for ever by wars or ru- mors of wars, decussated (for anything I know to the con- trary... ...the candid reader perceives at once the necessity for at least four bloody wars. Falling indeed a little farther, as, for instance, into the pigstye, ... ...rious fact in itself, especially as expounding the main cause of the civil wars. Mere poverty, and the absence of bribery from Rome, whilst all popula...

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...ested by 81 Thomas de Quincey the ‘Lutrin.’ The story in Herodotus of the wars between cranes and pigmies, or the Batrachomyomachia (so absurdly ascr... ...onosyllable, is here made a dissyllable. But Thebez, the dissyllable, is a Syrian city. It is true that Causabon deduces from a Syriac word meaning a ... ...rtial was not resorted to in England: except for the short term of the two wars, and the brief intermediate campaign of 1648, the country was in a 16... ... What blood did he cause to be shed? A great deal was shed no doubt in the wars (though less, by the way, than is imagined): but in those Cromwell was... ...sing a single war. After he attained the sovereign power, no more domestic wars arose: and as to a few persons who were executed for plots and conspir... ...ate of society as rude and uncultured as that which pre- vailed during the wars of York and Lancaster—i.e. about two centuries earlier. But those, wit...

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...oppressors, exhibit to us the incarnations of Wordsworth’s principle. Such wars are of rare occurrence. Fortunately they are so; since, under the poss... ...zed by the ex- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier under Joshu... ... the true and transcendent spirit of mercy which resides virtually in such wars, as maintaining the unity of God against Poly- theism and, by tramplin... ...rope the proclamation of French su- periority—that is the object of French wars. Like the Spar- tan of old, the Frenchman would hold that a state of p... ...pended upon war. He lived by and through the army. Without a succession of wars and martial glories in reserve for the army, what interest had they in... ...ng to heaven, as a penitential litany, that same petition which Naaman the Syrian offered to the prophet Elijah as a reason for a personal dispensatio... ...cy about Ecbatana, when suddenly a horrid discovery was made—that the very Syrian village at his own head-quarters was known by the pompous name of Ec...

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...ady coming. Christian thought struggles towards it, with the millstones of Syrian theology and an outrageous mythology of incarnation and resurrection... ...few centuries God will have led us out of the dark forest of these present wars and confusions into the open brotherhood of his rule. 74 God The Invi...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is risi...

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... CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ACT I AN OCTOBER NIGHT on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 7... ...rawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers. The palace, an old, low, Syrian building of whitened mud, is not so ugly as Buckingham Palace; and t... ... announced the coming of Caesar six months before in the old palace on the Syrian border. The north side is lined by Roman sol- diers, with the townsf... ...ting Caesar as a much more various person than the historian of the Gallic wars, I hope I have not succumbed unconsciously to the dramatic illusion to...

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...iot horses, but re served of them for an hundred chariots. 5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of ... ...ans of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men. 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of... ...nty thousand men. 6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved... ...ecause he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of... ...of Zobah. 13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men. 14 And he put g... ...saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and ...

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... his common humanity and his subjection to time and space (that is, to the Syrian life of his period) involved his belief in many things, true and fal... ... in many things, true and false, that in no way distinguish him from other Syrians of that time. But such common beliefs do not constitute specific Ch... ...earliest codices are Greek manuscripts of the fourth century A.D., and the Syrian ones are translations from the Greek, the paleographic expert has no... ... Crusades, the persecu- tions in Albi and elsewhere, the Inquisition, the “wars of religion” which followed the Reformation, all presented them- selve... ...eudo-Christianity which have produced all the perse- cutions and religious wars of the last fifteen hundred years. When the late explorer Sir Henry St...

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... to die; The Princes with the multitude agree, That Godfrey ruler of those wars should be. XXXIII This power they gave him, by his princely right, All... ...forward on his way, And to arrive at Gaza old procured, A fort that on the Syrian frontiers lay, Nor thinks he that a man to wars inured Will aught fo... ...ured, A fort that on the Syrian frontiers lay, Nor thinks he that a man to wars inured Will aught forslow, or in his journey stay, For well he knew hi... ... such, Have cause to joy, or to complain too much. LXXXVII “Think not that wars we love, and strife affect, Or that we hate sweet peace, or rest denay... ... inflamed hereby, His lap he opened and spread forth his cloak: “To mortal wars,” he says, “I you defy;” And this he uttered with fell rage and hate, ... ... valley deep this forest stood, To Christian eyes unseen, unknown, until A Syrian told the duke, who thither sent Those chosen workmen that for timber... ...herefore would that some Both of the prey and glory of the fight Upon this Syrian folk would haply light. XXII But for he held the Frenchmen’s worth i... ..., And conquer knights in warlike equipage, Of their night ambling dame the Syrians prated, Some good, some bad, as they her loved or hated. XXVIII Wit... ...ch distressed wight, The maiden’s offer profit with it brought; For if the Syrian kingdom were her right, That won, the way were easy, which he sought...

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...l; that it is spo- ken of prophetically as such; and that historically the Syrian ass is made known to us as having been used in the prosperous ages o... ...Miscellaneous Papers it suggests to a very common error. In some period of Syrian warfare, a large military detach- ment was entering at some point of... ...nformation of a skull which he saw amongst many others on an altar in some Syrian convent. He offered a considerable sum in gold for it; but it was by... ...n attached to it, the skull would endanger any vessel carrying it from the Syrian shore: the vessel might escape; but it would never succeed in reachi... ... the vessel might escape; but it would never succeed in reaching any but a Syrian harbor. After this, for the credit of our country, which stands so h... ...d countenanced by innumer- able books) as to the true historical origin of wars in many notorious instances. If these had arisen on trivial impulses, ... ...d them. If a man has once persuaded himself, that long, costly, and bloody wars had arisen upon a point of ceremony, upon a personal pique, upon a has... ...so flexible to any stern counter-volition as those must be supposed, whose wars argued so much of vicious levity. The inference is unexceptionable: it... ...rrator,—we may take for granted, that the current stories ascribing modern wars (French and English) to accidents the most inconsiderable, are false e...

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...er plates should be engraven an account of the reign of the kings, and the wars and contentions of my people; wherefore these plates are for the more ... ...d the other plates are for the more part of the reign of the kings and the wars and contentions of my people. 1 Nephi 9:5 5 Wherefore, the Lord hath ... ...ultitudes gathered together to battle, one against the other; and I beheld wars, 34 The Book of Mormon and rumors of wars, and great slaughters with ... ...came to pass that I beheld many generations pass away, after the manner of wars and contentions in the land; and I beheld many cities, yea, even that ... ... Nephi 12:21 21 And I saw them gathered together in multitudes; and I saw wars and rumors of wars among them; and in wars and rumors of wars I saw ma... ...of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 2 Nephi 19:12 12 The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel wit...

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...riumphs of mankind, Here where the wrong is right, the right is wrong, Where wars abound so many, and myriad faced Is crime; where no meet honour hath... ...and the forests of Alcinous; Nor from like cuttings are Crustumian pears And Syrian, and the heavy hand fillers. Not the same vintage from our trees h... ...ith a second Tiphys shall there be, Her hero freight a second Argo bear; New wars too shall arise, and once again Some great Achilles to some Troy be ... ..., I For lack there will not who would laud thy deeds, And treat of dolorous wars will rather tune T o the slim oaten reed my silvan lay. I sing but ...

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...s leap, nor yet at the Almains; for, said Gymnast, these jumps are for the wars altogether unprofitable, and of no use—but at one leap he would skip o... ...ers of Lerne, and those of Gargantua’s country, whereupon were waged great wars. At that time, which was the season of vintage, in the begin- ning of ... ... that there was no hope left to draw them to peace but by sharp and fierce wars. Chapter 1.XXXIII. How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained co... ... was there present at that time an old gentle- man well experienced in the wars, a stern soldier, and who had been in many great hazards, named Echeph... ...; for that in war appeareth all that is good and graceful, and that by the wars is purged out all manner of wickedness and deformity. For proof whereo... ..., devoured by vermin and lice; as before him died L. Sylla, Pherecydes the Syrian, the preceptor of Pythagoras, and Greek poet Alcmaeon, and others—an...

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...before he came here. The Indians are said to have spared him in succeeding wars on account of his kindness to them. Even in 1700 he was so old and gra... ...very flower of all reading, which we had postponed to such a season “Of Syrian peace, immortal leisure.” But, alas, our chest, like the cabin of a ... ...ied, `Me next.’” Manchester was the residence of John Stark, a hero of two wars, and survivor of a third, and at his death the last but one of the Ame... ..., with one other man, was killed here by his own race in one of the Indian wars,—the particulars of which affair were told us on the spot. He was buri... ...e air, and seas I know, and all The joys and horrors of their peace and wars; And now will view the Gods’ state and the stars,” but such are not...

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...re (they have been realised), ten thou- sand Athenian drachmas, and twelve Syrian talents of gold. The food for the crews, amounting to twenty minae a... ...great Punic houses. They had carried their ancestors, had triumphed in the wars, and they were reverenced as being the favourites of the Sun. Those of...

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... our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and wars. When we come out of the cau- cus, or the bank, or the Abolition-conve... ...and affectionate, does not seem to us to need Olympus to die upon, nor the Syrian sunshine. He lies very well where he is. The Jerseys were handsome g...

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... to die; The Princes with the multitude agree, That Godfrey ruler of those wars should be. XXXIII This power they gave him, by his princely right, All... ...forward on his way, And to arrive at Gaza old procured, A fort that on the Syrian frontiers lay, Nor thinks he that a man to wars inured Will aught fo... ...ured, A fort that on the Syrian frontiers lay, Nor thinks he that a man to wars inured Will aught forslow, or in his journey stay, For well he knew hi... ... such, Have cause to joy, or to complain too much. LXXXVII “Think not that wars we love, and strife affect, Or that we hate sweet peace, or rest denay... ... inflamed hereby, His lap he opened and spread forth his cloak: “To mortal wars,” he says, “I you defy;” And this he uttered with fell rage and hate, ... ... valley deep this forest stood, To Christian eyes unseen, unknown, until A Syrian told the duke, who thither sent Those chosen workmen that for timber... ...herefore would that some Both of the prey and glory of the fight Upon this Syrian folk would haply light. XXII But for he held the Frenchmen’s worth i... ..., And conquer knights in warlike equipage, Of their night ambling dame the Syrians prated, Some good, some bad, as they her loved or hated. XXVIII Wit... ...ch distressed wight, The maiden’s offer profit with it brought; For if the Syrian kingdom were her right, That won, the way were easy, which he sought...

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...her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquish’d realms supply recording gold? Here, rising bo... ...o sing of Cæsar’s fame; Meanwhile, permit that my preluding Muse In Theban wars an humbler theme may choose: 50 Of furious hate survivin... ...cares Phoroneus’ towers defend, 350 Must I, O Jove! in bloody wars contend? Thou know’st those regions my protection claim, Glorious in a... ...roud Caesar, ‘midst triumphal cars, The spoils of nations, and the pomp of wars, Ignobly vain, and impotently great, Show’d Rome her Cato’s figure dra... ... GUS. GUS. GUS. GUS. When wise Ulysses, from his native coast Long kept by wars, and long by tempests toss’d, Arrived at last, poor, old, disguised, a... ...gh his house be sold; To headless Phoebe his fair bride postpone, Honour a Syrian prince above his own; Lord of an Otho, if I vouch it true; Bless’d i... ...ll’d, and said, Rattling an ancient sistrum at his head; ‘Speak’st thou of Syrian prince? 423 T raitor base! Mine, goddess! mine is all the hornèd ra... ...tus tells the same thing of it in his time.—P . W . 423 ‘Speak’st thou of Syrian princes:’ the strange story follow- ing, which may be taken for a fi... ... a true relation in Spon’s Voyages. Vaillant (who wrote the History of the Syrian Kings as it is to be found on medals) coming from the Levant, where ...

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...ecurity that can be devised against hostilities from abroad. The number of wars which have happened or will happen in the world will always be found t... ..., which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of his people. Bu... ...e, and that those three were almost constantly em- broiled in quarrels and wars with one another. Notwithstand- ing their true interest with respect t... ... to extinguish those inflammable hu- mors which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste them... ...erprising a passion as that of power or glory? Have there not been as many wars founded upon commercial motives since that has become the prevailing s... ...and who, as an enemy to Macedon, had interest enough with the Egyptian and Syrian princes to effect a breach of their engagements with the league. The...

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...: “Two Old Men” 102 of other nationalities: Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Syrians. Efím entered the Holy Gates with the crowd. A monk led them past t... ...ied daughter, Martha, who was deaf and dumb. Simon the Soldier went to the wars to serve the king; Tarás the Stout went to a merchant’s in town to tra...

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...testimonies to the contrary, could never have been very general. Andeus, a Syrian of Mesopotamia, was condemned for the opinion, as heretical. He live... ...miled a silent dell Where the people did not dwell; They had gone unto the wars, Trusting to the mild-eyed stars, Nightly, from their azure towers, To...

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...end was adopted by some of the Eastern Christians; and commemorated in the Syrian Cal- endar on Jan. 29. (Hyde de Rel. V. Pers. 74). Comp. the Abyssin... ...er of the craft. Burton. First Footsteps in E. Africa, p. 33. The numerous wars in which David was engaged, may have given rise to the myth of his bei... ...u garments to defend you from the heat, and garments to defend you in your wars. Thus doth He fill up the measure of His 249 The Koran goodness towar... ...r things (for) reprisals. The meaning of this difficult passage is that in wars for the cause of religion, the sacred month and the temple of Mecca ma... ...Talmud Sanhed. 92); by others, for fear of being compelled to serve in the wars of God. 437 The Koran 96 This and the seven following verses shew th... ...ere, the opinions, not only of the Jews, but of a much wider circle of the Syrian natives.” 4 Sura [cxiii.] ix. 115. 5 That is, by their conversion ... ...n they have wrought. The faithful must not march forth all together to the wars: and if a party of every band of them march not out, it is that they m...

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... sto- ries of the twentieth century. It did not happen by accident. Recent wars have been waged and won decisively by brave men and women using advanc... ...ack a ship near Y emen. On January 3, an attempt was made to attack a U.S. warship in Aden, the USS The Sullivans.The attempt failed when the small bo... ...l, specifically an oil tanker, but Bin Ladin urged them to look for a U.S. warship instead. In January 2000, their team had attempted to attack a wars... ...gave Nibras and Khamri instructions to execute the attack on the next U.S. warship that entered the port of Aden. 123 While Nashiri was in Afghanistan... ... to help contain new nuclear dangers; and international involvement in the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. America stood out as an object for admiration, e... ...First is a 1997 trip to the United States by Ghasoub al Abrash Ghalyoun, a Syrian living in Spain. During the trip, Ghalyoun videotaped a number of U....