Archive for February 26th, 2007
What if you were thrown in prison for trying to do your job?
December 15, 2001, dawned overcast at Pakistan’s Chaman crossing point into Afghanistan, and Al-Jazeera reporter Abdelhaq Sadah and cameraman Sami Muhyideen al-Haj were anxious to get moving. Just across the border, the Taliban had fled Kandahar, their rule effectively ended by a fierce U.S. air and Afghan ground assault. The pair’s assignment was to cover [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2007 under Life Stories.
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What if the Jesus’s tomb has been discovered?
A Canadian filmmaker claims he has found ossuaries, or limestone tombs, that in all likelihood contained the remains of Jesus, his mother, Mary, his wife, Mary Magdalene, and - most shockingly - their son, Judah.
Publicity agents for Simcha Jacobovici, who grew up in Montreal, and his executive producer, James Cameron of Titanic fame, a native [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2007 under History.
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Today in History - February 26
1993: World Trade Center bomb terrorises New York
A suspected car bomb has exploded underneath the World Trade Center in New York killing at least five people and injuring scores more.
The bombing has shocked America which had seemed immune from acts of terrorism that have plagued other parts of the world.
An emotional Mario Cuomo, New York’s [...]
Posted: February 26th, 2007 under History.
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