Remembering the August 7th 1998 Al-Qaeda bomb blast in Nairobi
Dr. Silverstein remarked that he hadn’t heard a sound like that since the Norfolk hotel was bombed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1980.
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Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
Dr. Silverstein remarked that he hadn’t heard a sound like that since the Norfolk hotel was bombed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1980.
Continue ReadingLONG GOODBYE 07.27.15 2:20 PM ET How Obama Glossed Over Africa’s Troubles By MARGOT KISER To keep his visit to Kenya and Ethiopia upbeat, Obama declined to address some of the really big problems in both countries. NAIROBI — In what may give the term “birther” new meaning, it’s rumored that in Kogelo, President […]
Continue Reading A new online jihadist magazine calls on East African militants to pledge allegiance to Al-Qaeda #Kenya #Somalia http://t.co/fElL1osZl8 https://archive.org/stream/AmkaMagazine/Al-Muhajiroun01#page/n0/mode/1up
Continue ReadingRead my award-winning Newsweek story about the tourist kidnappings. byliner.com/margot–kiser/stories/filter/award_winners Paradise revised. Difficult to imagine that anything bad can happen in a place this beautiful. Manda island, 2011 Glassy waters on approach to Marie Dedieu’s grass hut. Like fruit on an outdoor stand almost anyone living the Robinson Crusoe dream was ripe for the plucking. […]
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