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To: Sam Hill

Tim McGirk, who shepherded the original story which broke in January, moved last month to be Jerusalem's bureau chief, while the other principal architect of the story, Bobby Ghosh, is now the Baghdad bureau chief.


This week, veteran Time reporter in Iraq, Michael Ware, who spent more than three years in the war-torn country, said he is jumping to CNN as a TV correspondent in Baghdad.


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(Tim McGirk is the South Asia correspondent for The Independent, London.)

Back in the days of Genghis Khan (he's still referred to respectfully as "Mr Genghis" in Mazar-e-Sharif), buzkashi was played with prisoners of war instead of a dead animal.

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30 posted on 06/05/2006 8:06:14 AM PDT by kcvl
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Jimminy Crickets, I thought you were referring to sadistic Viet Cong games during John Kerry's time. On second thought, what's the diff between then and now?

48 posted on 06/05/2006 4:40:41 PM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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