Kuala Lumpur 43 days of exile! Ok. I liked the airport — you know that. I was a little uneasy my second time around though when I noticed there were three lines — 2 that went through security and one — the big one in the middle — that just let you walk through into the …
Category: Personal Writings
Chalabi and Katrina
Kuala Lumpur  41 days of exile Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had a candidate to front for the Iraqi people — Dr. Ahmad Chalabi. He had been running the Iraqi National Congress for many years from the United Kingdom. He had a degree from the University of Chicago. He was connected. Former Secretary of State Colin …
Aceh and Katrina
Yogyakarta 39 Days of Exile The tsunami on December 26th, 2004, was an unimaginable devastation for Indonesia. We met with people who usually used the figure of 200,000 dead, but essentially argued that the level was so horrendous and the destruction so immense that there was no real count and in fact some said that after …