Monday, May 20, 2024

Richard Engel on Raisi's death--

blockquote> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Engel
Engel is known for having covered the Iraq War, the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War.[3] He speaks and reads Arabic fluently and is fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel received the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary". Engel wrote A Fist in the Hornet's Nest, published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq War from Baghdad. His most recent book, And Then All Hell Broke Loose, published in 2016, is about his two-decade career in the Middle East as a freelance reporter.
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5-20-2024

U Pyinya Zawta--US Citizen, arrested in Burma--Don't go there.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/fears-grow-for-saffron-revolution-monk-detained-in-myanmar.html About a year ago, a long time disside...