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(CNN) -- Americans and other foreigners were among those caught up in the bloodshed and chaos of the terror attacks in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday and Thursday.

A foreign national held hostage by gunmen for nearly 24 hours is released from the Oberoi hotel in Mumbai.

At least six foreigners were among the 125 dead, police said.  Targets included two luxury hotels, the Oberoi and the Taj Mahal, as well as a cafe popular with Western tourists.

A man told a local television station that he was in the Oberoi around 10 p.m. Wednesday when gunmen entered the lobby and began rounding up guests, asking for anyone with a U.S. or British passport and taking about 15 of them hostage.

Fire raged at the Oberoi, the scene of much bloodshed as explosions and gunshots rang out Thursday morning. Outside the Taj Mahal, screaming and fighting broke out as reporters scrambled to capture the chaotic scene.

Australian filmmaker Anthony Rose told CNN that he had just arrived at the Oberoi hotel when he heard gunshots in the lobby and saw a fellow Australian shot in the leg and then shot at close range in the head by one of the attackers.

He said that he and others in his film crew fled through back doors in the hotel to escape the shooters.

Among those killed in the two days of violence was British yachtsman Andreas Liveras, according to St. George's Hospital in Mumbai.

At least one French national is trapped in the Oberoi hotel, according to the French Foreign Ministry in Paris.

A woman from Nashville, Tennessee, was shot in the arm and leg by the attackers, who barged into a ballroom at her hotel, her husband told CNN affiliate WSMV.

Andi Varagona operates a holistic health clinic in Nashville and was in Mumbai for training, her husband, Santos Lopez, told the station.

According to Lopez, his wife called him and said, "We were ambushed and we were shot."

When he asked Varagona if she was all right, she told him she had been shot in the leg and arm and was at that moment being wheeled into surgery, Lopez said.

"My God, I cried more than I cried in my entire life," Lopez told WSMV. "I mean, it's just been so overwhelming with emotion. ... You tend to believe that things that happen in the world happen to other people, until it happens to you."  Watch hostages walk from the building looking dazed ÃÂ»

WSMV is reporting that Varagona came out of surgery Wednesday night -- a bullet removed from her leg.

An American woman, who was still inside the Taj with her husband, told CNN by phone Thursday that television feeds into the rooms had stopped and she did not know what was going on.

"We have water and we're hunkered down and patient and ready to wait it out," she said. "We're OK. Last night was a different story, but today we're OK."

The woman, whom CNN is not identifying so as not to disclose her location to the gunmen, said she heard gunfire outside her room Wednesday night and "a man with an American accent screaming for help."

Aparna Dash, an American who lives in Pennsylvania but is visiting Mumbai on business, was staying at the Oberoi hotel. She was on the phone with her husband, who was in the United States, when the first explosions rang out.

"She thought it was firecrackers and didn't think much of it," her husband, Biswa Dash, told CNN. "But then in the coming hours, she realized what was going on and all the people in the hotel began trying to get out, to rush down the stairs."

Aparna Dash had made it down to the fifth floor from her room on the 26th floor, her husband said, and found an American woman sitting on the stairs, dazed and crying. iReport.com: Are you there? Share your story and send photos and video

"They were telling [the woman] that she needed to get up and keep moving," said Biswa Dash, recounting what his wife told him. "She was crying and saying that there were all these people piled on top of each other and that the armed men had come at them just straight on -- without masks, without trying to hide their faces at all. Just charging at them with their ammunition and their AK-47s."

Indian Prime Minister Moanmohan Singh said the attackers were likely foreigners, but he did not name a country where he believed they were from. Officially, the Indian authorities are saying no one has claimed responsibility. A group called the Deccan Mujahideen took credit in e-mails sent to several Indian news outlets.

Authorities found 8 kilograms (17 pounds) of RDX, one of the most powerful military explosives, at a restaurant near the Taj, indicating that the attackers may have been planning more violence.

A woman whom CNN is only identifying by her first name -- Andrea -- spoke to CNN from Mumbai, where she is visiting for her brother's wedding. She is staying at a hotel a few blocks from the Taj.

She heard the explosions Wednesday and then immediately got a call from her brother, who lives in Hong Kong. He was worried, saying that he had heard reports of gunfire. "And we were like, 'Yeah, gunshots, we're from New Orleans, whatever,' " Andrea said.

A few hours later, she said, her brother called back and said, "This is a big deal, put on the TV."

"That's when we figured out what was going on," Andrea said.

"Over the course of the night we heard maybe three explosions, some emergency vehicles, sirens. For the most part the street was really quiet," she said. "We've been watching the news the whole time, just like everyone else."

She needed water, so she left her hotel and a person at a restaurant helped her, she said. She has since been in contact with the U.S. embassy and the family is moving the wedding.

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New York (CNN) -- Israel's government is missing an opportunity to secure the country's future and build a coalition of nations to counter increasing Iranian influence, according to analyst Fareed Zakaria.

He says the government, headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is letting the dispute with the United States over expanded settlements in East Jerusalem get in the way of making progress toward resolution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

"The Netanyahu government goes on and on about the existential threat that Israel faces from Iran, the need for the world to mobilize, to put that above all else," Zakaria said. "If that really is the case, shouldn't Israel try to be supportive and deepen the relationship with the one country whose military, political and economic support is going to be absolutely crucial in dealing with this threat, that is, the United States?

"If the Iranian threat were really the overriding threat to Israel, wouldn't it be willing to subordinate other issues and make some progress on the Palestinian issue because it would help the moderate Arab states who also share the worries about the rise of Iran, and would allow the moderate Arab states to form a kind of tacit alliance with Israel?"

Zakaria, author and host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS," spoke to CNN on Wednesday. Here is an edited transcript:

CNN: In your view, how badly have U.S.-Israeli relations been damaged by the announcement of the East Jerusalem settlement expansion?

Fareed Zakaria: I think by itself this would be a small friction that could easily be overcome, but it comes on the heels of increasingly tense relations between Washington and Tel Aviv, and because of that, it has become larger than life precisely because it seems to be the straw that broke the camel's back for the Obama administration. It became a symbol for the fact that in their view, the Netanyahu government is simply not trying to be cooperative in the search for some kind of movement forward on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

CNN: And why do they feel that way?

Zakaria: They have been trying to get the Netanyahu government to do something concrete that would demonstrate that they are interested in moving forward, whether it is direct talks, whether it's a settlement freeze or any other such signal that would allow the process to begin moving forward rather than to stay where it is.

So far, the Netanyahu government has done nothing like that, and in fact has taken several steps that would make it difficult to enter into direct negotiations. ... He has within his coalition members of the orthodox right in Israel who still very much hold to a view that the Jewish state should be on most, if not all, of the land of greater Israel, which includes the West Bank. ...This government has probably been the least responsive to concerns from Washington on the issue of the peace process in 20 years.

CNN: The so-called proximity peace talks were delayed as a result of this dispute? Is that a real step backward?

Zakaria: The whole problem with the peace process is that it's sort of going around in circles. I myself think the proximity talks are themselves almost like a bad joke.

They're not actually going to talk to one another. The American negotiator is going to shuttle back and forth between them. We're in 2010.

If everyone agrees that there's going to be a two-state solution and we kind of know what the plan is going to look like, roughly -- which is to say the plan that was largely agreed upon by the two parties in 2000 under the auspices of Bill Clinton -- we are now going back to the most tentative steps of circling around each other, barely talking to one another. It's as if we're at the beginning of a negotiating process when really we should be at the end of one ...

CNN: You've laid out the obstacles on the Israeli side. Are there obstacles on the Palestinian side too?

Zakaria: There are huge obstacles on the Palestinian side: First of all, the divided Palestinian authority -- Hamas being in charge in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in charge on the West Bank. There is the reality that Hamas is still not reconciled to the idea of a Jewish state. There is the reality of the corruption and perhaps the lack of legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority. But one would have to say that these problems have existed for a long time, and it's not clear to me that these problems have gotten worse.

In fact, the Palestinian Authority is better functioning than it has ever been under Salam Fayyad, the prime minister. There is greater control over the territory by the Palestinian Authority. There is less of a problem of terrorism, a more serious effort to build from the ground up a modern state ... and there have been some very small hints from the Hamas leadership that they would be willing to accept the state of Israel. It's not nearly enough, but the point is, if there's been any movement, it has not been movement backward in the Palestinian case.

CNN: On the Israeli side, what's the significance of expanding the settlements in East Jerusalem?

Zakaria: There are religious parties in Israel who want to create facts on the ground [that] make it more and more difficult to trade land for peace. It's also an indication that the broader Israeli public has sort of lost interest in the resolution of the Palestinian problem.

I think that many see the wall as essentially ending the problem of terrorism. The Israeli public as a whole has moved right and there is a collective belief that Israel can simply kick this can down the road and deal with the problem later. I think it's short-sighted, in terms of demographics, regional politics, in terms of the technology of terrorism, pushing this problem away when there will be more Palestinians with the potential for being more radicalized, perhaps a greater international coalition arrayed against Israel. It doesn't seem to be a far-sighted way to secure Israel.

Israel is basically succeeding brilliantly in the economic realm ... in many ways, it is even more productive than European countries. It is a technological superstar. What it needs is political stability and to resolve this problem so it can move even more dramatically forward. But it has a political system where that kind of resolution becomes politically difficult because of many highly reactionary forces within the system.

CNN: Is there a way out of this mess?

Zakaria: The way out would be for the Israelis to recognize that it is profoundly in their long-term interest to resolve this issue, recognize that they are the stronger party ... and see if there is a possibility of some kind of resolution to get out of the terrible bind it's in. It has 3.5 million people on territory it controls who neither have political rights nor a state of their own. Nor can they be part of Israel.

That's a structural reality which is terrible for the Palestinians but also terrible for the Israelis because it undermines Israel as a democratic state. It's better resolved soon, and whether that means you give up a few hillsides here or there, strikes me as being far less significant than the gain for Israel, which would be to once and for all resolve this issue.

CNN: Is the Netanyahu government in danger of collapsing?

Zakaria: No, I think Netanyahu is playing this juggler's game to keep his coalition together. But it's a far cry from the man who wants to present himself as an international statesman or even an important figure in Israel's history. ... He's turning out to be a political hack who spends his time counting the votes in the Knesset rather than thinking about his legacy in the history books. ... The image is of a Churchillian statesman, and the reality is of a local alderman counting the votes.

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text: a

text: small

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text: Washington

text: and

text: Tel

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text: has

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text: larger

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text: seems

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text: be

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text: straw

text: that

text: broke

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text: camel

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text: back

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text: Obama

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text: symbol

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text: fact

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text: their

text: view

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text: Netanyahu

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text: simply

text: not

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text: be

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text: why

text: do

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text: feel

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text: way

text: Zakaria

text: They

text: have

text: been

text: trying

text: to

text: get

text: the

text: Netanyahu

text: government

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text: concrete

text: that

text: would

text: demonstrate

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text: they

text: are

text: interested

text: in

text: moving

text: forward

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text: is

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text: any

text: other

text: such

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text: allow

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text: process

text: to

text: begin

text: moving

text: forward

text: rather

text: than

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text: stay

text: where

text: it

text: is

text: So

text: far

text: the

text: Netanyahu

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text: has

text: done

text: nothing

text: like

text: that

text: and

text: in

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text: has

text: taken

text: several

text: steps

text: that

text: would

text: make

text: it

text: difficult

text: to

text: enter

text: into

text: direct

text: negotiations

text: He

text: has

text: within

text: his

text: coalition

text: members

text: of

text: the

text: orthodox

text: right

text: in

text: Israel

text: who

text: still

text: very

text: much

text: hold

text: to

text: a

text: view

text: that

text: the

text: Jewish

text: state

text: should

text: be

text: on

text: most

text: if

text: not

text: all

text: of

text: the

text: land

text: of

text: greater

text: Israel

text: which

text: includes

text: the

text: West

text: Bank

text: This

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text: has

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text: been

text: the

text: least

text: responsive

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text: concerns

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text: issue

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text: peace

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text: The

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text: proximity

text: peace

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text: delayed

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text: result

text: of

text: this

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text: peace

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text: proximity

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text: another

text: The

text: American

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text: going

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text: plan

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text: going

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text: plan

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text: auspices

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text: most

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text: at

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text: beginning

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text: negotiating

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text: really

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text: end

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text: CNN

text: You

text: 've

text: laid

text: out

text: the

text: obstacles

text: on

text: the

text: Israeli

text: side

text: Are

text: there

text: obstacles

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text: the

text: Palestinian

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text: Zakaria

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text: obstacles

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text: Palestinian

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text: First

text: of

text: all

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text: divided

text: Palestinian

text: authority

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text: the

text: Palestinian

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text: in

text: charge

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text: the

text: West

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text: There

text: is

text: the

text: reality

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text: Hamas

text: is

text: still

text: not

text: reconciled

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text: the

text: idea

text: of

text: a

text: Jewish

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text: There

text: is

text: the

text: reality

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text: the

text: corruption

text: and

text: perhaps

text: the

text: lack

text: of

text: legitimacy

text: of

text: the

text: Palestinian

text: Authority

text: But

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text: would

text: have

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text: say

text: that

text: these

text: problems

text: have

text: existed

text: for

text: a

text: long

text: time

text: and

text: it

text: 's

text: not

text: clear

text: to

text: me

text: that

text: these

text: problems

text: have

text: gotten

text: worse

text: In

text: fact

text: the

text: Palestinian

text: Authority

text: is

text: better

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text: has

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text: the

text: prime

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text: Palestinian

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text: problem

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text: terrorism

text: a

text: more

text: serious

text: effort

text: to

text: build

text: from

text: the

text: ground

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text: a

text: modern

text: state

text: and

text: there

text: have

text: been

text: some

text: very

text: small

text: hints

text: from

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text: Hamas

text: leadership

text: that

text: they

text: would

text: be

text: willing

text: to

text: accept

text: the

text: state

text: of

text: Israel

text: It

text: 's

text: not

text: nearly

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text: the

text: point

text: is

text: if

text: there

text: 's

text: been

text: any

text: movement

text: it

text: has

text: not

text: been

text: movement

text: backward

text: in

text: the

text: Palestinian

text: case

text: CNN

text: On

text: the

text: Israeli

text: side

text: what

text: 's

text: the

text: significance

text: of

text: expanding

text: the

text: settlements

text: in

text: East

text: Jerusalem

text: Zakaria

text: There

text: are

text: religious

text: parties

text: in

text: Israel

text: who

text: want

text: to

text: create

text: facts

text: on

text: the

text: ground

text: that

text: make

text: it

text: more

text: and

text: more

text: difficult

text: to

text: trade

text: land

text: for

text: peace

text: It

text: 's

text: also

text: an

text: indication

text: that

text: the

text: broader

text: Israeli

text: public

text: has

text: sort

text: of

text: lost

text: interest

text: in

text: the

text: resolution

text: of

text: the

text: Palestinian

text: problem

text: I

text: think

text: that

text: many

text: see

text: the

text: wall

text: as

text: essentially

text: ending

text: the

text: problem

text: of

text: terrorism

text: The

text: Israeli

text: public

text: as

text: a

text: whole

text: has

text: moved

text: right

text: and

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: collective

text: belief

text: that

text: Israel

text: can

text: simply

text: kick

text: this

text: can

text: down

text: the

text: road

text: and

text: deal

text: with

text: the

text: problem

text: later

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: 's

text: short

text: sighted

text: in

text: terms

text: of

text: demographics

text: regional

text: politics

text: in

text: terms

text: of

text: the

text: technology

text: of

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text: pushing

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text: problem

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text: when

text: there

text: will

text: be

text: more

text: Palestinians

text: with

text: the

text: potential

text: for

text: being

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text: radicalized

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text: a

text: greater

text: international

text: coalition

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text: against

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text: does

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text: seem

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: far

text: sighted

text: way

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text: secure

text: Israel

text: Israel

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text: basically

text: succeeding

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text: the

text: economic

text: realm

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text: ways

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text: is

text: even

text: more

text: productive

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text: a

text: technological

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text: needs

text: is

text: political

text: stability

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text: to

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text: has

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text: system

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text: that

text: kind

text: of

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text: politically

text: difficult

text: because

text: of

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text: forces

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text: system

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text: Is

text: there

text: a

text: way

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text: of

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text: mess

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text: structural

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text: you

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text: issue

text: CNN

text: Is

text: the

text: Netanyahu

text: government

text: in

text: danger

text: of

text: collapsing

text: Zakaria

text: No

text: I

text: think

text: Netanyahu

text: is

text: playing

text: this

text: juggler

text: 's

text: game

text: to

text: keep

text: his

text: coalition

text: together

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text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: far

text: cry

text: from

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text: man

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text: wants

text: to

text: present

text: himself

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text: an

text: international

text: statesman

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text: important

text: figure

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text: 's

text: history

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text: 's

text: turning

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text: a

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text: votes

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text: Knesset

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text: history

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text: alderman

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text: votes

question: Which country is Israel countering?

answer: Iran,

text: Iran,

question: What did Fareed Zakaria says Obama administration

answer: tense relations between Washington and Tel Aviv,

text: tense relations between Washington and Tel Aviv,


text:
(CNN) -- The orgy of violence that has greeted Kenya's disputed election result has led to hundreds of deaths and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes.

But away from the tragic human cost, the unrest has also provoked concerns about the stability of the east African country's economy, until now seen as a model for the region.

Businesses have been destroyed and looted and supply routes disrupted after the opposition accused incumbent president Mwai Kibaki of election fraud after he was declared winner Sunday.

Investors are watching events closely in the country, fearful of how it could affect one of Africa's few economic success stories.

And the early signs have been worrying.

The equity market on the Nairobi Stock Exchange lost 40 billion Kenyan Shillings ($591 million) in value on its first day of New Year trading Wednesday, the Kenyan financial newspaper Business Daily Africa reported.

And business leaders said that the government was losing around 2 billion Shillings ($29.5 million) a day in lost revenue as a result of the political violence, the paper reported.

"We do seem to be in a new place, there's a lot of uncertainty about where we go from here. And a lot depends crucially on how long-lasting this is," said Razia Kahn, an analyst specializing in Africa at Standard Chartered bank.

Kenya has attracted a large number of multi-nationals and is home to one of the world's fastest growing stock exchanges.

Its relative economic success has been helped in part by its thriving tourist sector, with visitors attracted by its abundant wildlife and pristine beaches.

Provisional figures for 2006 from the Kenya's tourist board said the country had received 1.5 million visitors for the year, a growth of 5.2 per cent.

However, fears that the tourist industry could take a heavy hit from the unrest grew with the British Federation of Tour Operators announcing Thursday it was suspending all holidays to the country departing up to and including this Saturday.  Watch an aid worker describe fears that crisis may resemble Rwanda's Â»

British tourists already in the country have been advised by the British Foreign Office to stay indoors and to stay away from the major cities.

There are also worries about the knock-on effect for the region, since around 40 percent of Kenya's exports go to other African nations, Kahn said.

Of even greater concern is the effect on Kenya's lucrative agriculture industry.

Exports of tea, coffee, vegetables and flowers are big earners for the country, with agriculture making up about a fifth of the total economy.

There have been media reports of tea and coffee auctions being halted by the violence as well as widespread disruption to transport routes as rioters blockade major roads across the country.

Arun Shah, who runs a coffee import business based in London, told CNN his livelihood depended on a stable Kenya.

"We have had absolutely reliable supply," he said. "We have had reliable quality and the quantities that we need for our trade." E-mail to a friend

CNN's Jim Boulden in London contributed to this report

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text: The

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text: violence

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text: has

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text: the

text: east

text: African

text: country

text: 's

text: economy

text: until

text: now

text: seen

text: as

text: a

text: model

text: for

text: the

text: region

text: Businesses

text: have

text: been

text: destroyed

text: and

text: looted

text: and

text: supply

text: routes

text: disrupted

text: after

text: the

text: opposition

text: accused

text: incumbent

text: president

text: Mwai

text: Kibaki

text: of

text: election

text: fraud

text: after

text: he

text: was

text: declared

text: winner

text: Sunday

text: Investors

text: are

text: watching

text: events

text: closely

text: in

text: the

text: country

text: fearful

text: of

text: how

text: it

text: could

text: affect

text: one

text: of

text: Africa

text: 's

text: few

text: economic

text: success

text: stories

text: And

text: the

text: early

text: signs

text: have

text: been

text: worrying

text: The

text: equity

text: market

text: on

text: the

text: Nairobi

text: Stock

text: Exchange

text: lost

text: billion

text: Kenyan

text: Shillings

text: million

text: in

text: value

text: on

text: its

text: first

text: day

text: of

text: New

text: Year

text: trading

text: Wednesday

text: the

text: Kenyan

text: financial

text: newspaper

text: Business

text: Daily

text: Africa

text: reported

text: And

text: business

text: leaders

text: said

text: that

text: the

text: government

text: was

text: losing

text: around

text: billion

text: Shillings

text: million

text: a

text: day

text: in

text: lost

text: revenue

text: as

text: a

text: result

text: of

text: the

text: political

text: violence

text: the

text: paper

text: reported

text: We

text: do

text: seem

text: to

text: be

text: in

text: a

text: new

text: place

text: there

text: 's

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: uncertainty

text: about

text: where

text: we

text: go

text: from

text: here

text: And

text: a

text: lot

text: depends

text: crucially

text: on

text: how

text: long

text: lasting

text: this

text: is

text: said

text: Razia

text: Kahn

text: an

text: analyst

text: specializing

text: in

text: Africa

text: at

text: Standard

text: Chartered

text: bank

text: Kenya

text: has

text: attracted

text: a

text: large

text: number

text: of

text: multi

text: nationals

text: and

text: is

text: home

text: to

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: fastest

text: growing

text: stock

text: exchanges

text: Its

text: relative

text: economic

text: success

text: has

text: been

text: helped

text: in

text: part

text: by

text: its

text: thriving

text: tourist

text: sector

text: with

text: visitors

text: attracted

text: by

text: its

text: abundant

text: wildlife

text: and

text: pristine

text: beaches

text: Provisional

text: figures

text: for

text: from

text: the

text: Kenya

text: 's

text: tourist

text: board

text: said

text: the

text: country

text: had

text: received

text: million

text: visitors

text: for

text: the

text: year

text: a

text: growth

text: of

text: per

text: cent

text: However

text: fears

text: that

text: the

text: tourist

text: industry

text: could

text: take

text: a

text: heavy

text: hit

text: from

text: the

text: unrest

text: grew

text: with

text: the

text: British

text: Federation

text: of

text: Tour

text: Operators

text: announcing

text: Thursday

text: it

text: was

text: suspending

text: all

text: holidays

text: to

text: the

text: country

text: departing

text: up

text: to

text: and

text: including

text: this

text: Saturday

text: Watch

text: an

text: aid

text: worker

text: describe

text: fears

text: that

text: crisis

text: may

text: resemble

text: Rwanda

text: 's

text: Â

text: British

text: tourists

text: already

text: in

text: the

text: country

text: have

text: been

text: advised

text: by

text: the

text: British

text: Foreign

text: Office

text: to

text: stay

text: indoors

text: and

text: to

text: stay

text: away

text: from

text: the

text: major

text: cities

text: There

text: are

text: also

text: worries

text: about

text: the

text: knock

text: on

text: effect

text: for

text: the

text: region

text: since

text: around

text: percent

text: of

text: Kenya

text: 's

text: exports

text: go

text: to

text: other

text: African

text: nations

text: Kahn

text: said

text: Of

text: even

text: greater

text: concern

text: is

text: the

text: effect

text: on

text: Kenya

text: 's

text: lucrative

text: agriculture

text: industry

text: Exports

text: of

text: tea

text: coffee

text: vegetables

text: and

text: flowers

text: are

text: big

text: earners

text: for

text: the

text: country

text: with

text: agriculture

text: making

text: up

text: about

text: a

text: fifth

text: of

text: the

text: total

text: economy

text: There

text: have

text: been

text: media

text: reports

text: of

text: tea

text: and

text: coffee

text: auctions

text: being

text: halted

text: by

text: the

text: violence

text: as

text: well

text: as

text: widespread

text: disruption

text: to

text: transport

text: routes

text: as

text: rioters

text: blockade

text: major

text: roads

text: across

text: the

text: country

text: Arun

text: Shah

text: who

text: runs

text: a

text: coffee

text: import

text: business

text: based

text: in

text: London

text: told

text: CNN

text: his

text: livelihood

text: depended

text: on

text: a

text: stable

text: Kenya

text: We

text: have

text: had

text: absolutely

text: reliable

text: supply

text: he

text: said

text: We

text: have

text: had

text: reliable

text: quality

text: and

text: the

text: quantities

text: that

text: we

text: need

text: for

text: our

text: trade

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Jim

text: Boulden

text: in

text: London

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What industry is hit in the failing stock market?

answer: tourist

text: tourist

question: On the first day of 2008, what did the Nairobi Stock Exchange lose?

answer: 40 billion Kenyan Shillings

text: 40 billion Kenyan Shillings

question: What did the British tour operators do in response to the economy?

answer: suspending all holidays

text: suspending all holidays

question: What is the loss on the Nairobi stock market?

answer: 40 billion Kenyan Shillings

text: 40 billion Kenyan Shillings

question: What caused Kenya's destabling economy?

answer: the unrest

text: the unrest


text:
Habib Battah is a blogger, freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker based in New York and Beirut.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- When I heard Snoop Dogg was coming to Beirut, I jumped at the opportunity to show the world a different side of the country I had grown up in. So I hit the phones, tracked down the promoter and before I knew it, I was driving to the airport to film Snoop's arrival.

Beirut blogger Habib Battah with U.S. rap legend Snoop Dogg.

When I first met the Dogg (as he's known by his very courteous suit-wearing bodyguards), he was seated in the VIP lounge of Beirut International Airport, surrounded by entourage while awaiting passport control.

The U.S. rap legend had never been to the Middle East before, and I was wondering why he decided to perform in Beirut of all cities.

Outfitted in a hooded sweater, despite the sweltering heat of the Beirut summer, Snoop leaned forward and told me in his low voice: "There are a lot of places I could have started but I chose to start here because I felt they've been supporting me you know -- they've been down with me for long time."

By "starting" in Lebanon, Snoop meant that he intended to embark on a Middle East tour in the coming months. "Me and my man Roger had a nice conversation about putting together a Snoop Dogg Middle East tour ... so we gonna try to get that together over the next couple of months," Snoop, flanked by his forever-smiling local organizer, Lebanese entertainment mogul, Roger Kalaouz, told a room full of eager photographers and entertainment journalists.

But the Lebanese paparazzi still wondered, why Beirut?

"This is my first chance to party with the people of Lebanon," Snoop said. "They were always partying to my music but now they get a chance to actually party with Snoop Dogg.

"This is the party capital of the world," he added and the room filled with applause.

Hours later, Snoop drove the locals wild once again during his performance in front of thousands of adoring young fans by holding up a Lebanese flag on stage and then performing an impromptu sing-along with the chorus line "Beirut, Lebanon."

When the show ended just before one a.m., Snoop did not leave Beirut without living up to his promise to party hard. Acting on a tip from a source close to Snoop's circle, I managed to follow Snoop's entourage to the afterparty, at a massive and highly exclusive rooftop club overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and the Lebanese mountains.

I entered the club through the back entrance with members of Snoop's band that I had met at the airport. When we got inside, the champagne was flowing and the club was rocking with hundreds of people.

A mixture of house and trance music reverberated across all surfaces as fireworks lit up the evening sky. Snoop's band and crew were ecstatic, sporting looks of awe when they reached their VIP tables in the balcony section which boasts outdoor air conditioning.

And even though the European electric beat was quite a stretch from the hip hop he produces, Snoop himself seemed to be getting down -- waving his hands in the air.

But it wasn't long before the Dogg switched things up grabbed the microphone: "You are now rocking with the big Snoopie D.O. double jizzle for shizzle dizzle" he said, sending screams through the glamorous crowd.

Then he turned toward the DJ podium: "Hey! Yo! DJ! Why don't you play some of that Snoop Dogg sh*t? Once again the crowd was electrified, as Snoop began rapping to his track "Drop it Like It's Hot," (Part of the that performance is available on Snoop's Web site.)

Later he played other local favorites such as "Gin and Juice" and then rocked to a new track "That's the Homie" from his upcoming album "Malice in Wonderland" while being filmed by two cameraman and a flash light.

The Beirut show producer, Roger Kalaouz later explained that Snoop was actually filming part of the music video for the new track that night. And when Snoop left the club at 3 a.m., the party continued till seven in the morning, according to Kalaouz, in true Snoop fashion, back at the hotel.

Kalaouz says he's now preparing for Snoop's Middle East tour beginning in December, with a focus on cities in the oil-rich Arabian Gulf states, such as the UAE, Kuwait, Qatar and maybe even Saudi Arabia.

Though it remains unclear how much Kalaouz actually paid Snoop to perform in Beirut, he emphasized that the bidding process was intense with much competition from promoters in other Arab countries.

Check out Battah's blog at beirurtreport.blogspot.com

text: Habib

text: Battah

text: is

text: a

text: blogger

text: freelance

text: journalist

text: and

text: documentary

text: filmmaker

text: based

text: in

text: New

text: York

text: and

text: Beirut

text: BEIRUT

text: Lebanon

text: When

text: I

text: heard

text: Snoop

text: Dogg

text: was

text: coming

text: to

text: Beirut

text: I

text: jumped

text: at

text: the

text: opportunity

text: to

text: show

text: the

text: world

text: a

text: different

text: side

text: of

text: the

text: country

text: I

text: had

text: grown

text: up

text: in

text: So

text: I

text: hit

text: the

text: phones

text: tracked

text: down

text: the

text: promoter

text: and

text: before

text: I

text: knew

text: it

text: I

text: was

text: driving

text: to

text: the

text: airport

text: to

text: film

text: Snoop

text: 's

text: arrival

text: Beirut

text: blogger

text: Habib

text: Battah

text: with

text: U.S.

text: rap

text: legend

text: Snoop

text: Dogg

text: When

text: I

text: first

text: met

text: the

text: Dogg

text: as

text: he

text: 's

text: known

text: by

text: his

text: very

text: courteous

text: suit

text: wearing

text: bodyguards

text: he

text: was

text: seated

text: in

text: the

text: VIP

text: lounge

text: of

text: Beirut

text: International

text: Airport

text: surrounded

text: by

text: entourage

text: while

text: awaiting

text: passport

text: control

text: The

text: U.S.

text: rap

text: legend

text: had

text: never

text: been

text: to

text: the

text: Middle

text: East

text: before

text: and

text: I

text: was

text: wondering

text: why

text: he

text: decided

text: to

text: perform

text: in

text: Beirut

text: of

text: all

text: cities

text: Outfitted

text: in

text: a

text: hooded

text: sweater

text: despite

text: the

text: sweltering

text: heat

text: of

text: the

text: Beirut

text: summer

text: Snoop

text: leaned

text: forward

text: and

text: told

text: me

text: in

text: his

text: low

text: voice

text: There

text: are

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: places

text: I

text: could

text: have

text: started

text: but

text: I

text: chose

text: to

text: start

text: here

text: because

text: I

text: felt

text: they

text: 've

text: been

text: supporting

text: me

text: you

text: know

text: they

text: 've

text: been

text: down

text: with

text: me

text: for

text: long

text: time

text: By

text: starting

text: in

text: Lebanon

text: Snoop

text: meant

text: that

text: he

text: intended

text: to

text: embark

text: on

text: a

text: Middle

text: East

text: tour

text: in

text: the

text: coming

text: months

text: Me

text: and

text: my

text: man

text: Roger

text: had

text: a

text: nice

text: conversation

text: about

text: putting

text: together

text: a

text: Snoop

text: Dogg

text: Middle

text: East

text: tour

text: so

text: we

text: gon

text: try

text: to

text: get

text: that

text: together

text: over

text: the

text: next

text: couple

text: of

text: months

text: Snoop

text: flanked

text: by

text: his

text: forever

text: smiling

text: local

text: organizer

text: Lebanese

text: entertainment

text: mogul

text: Roger

text: Kalaouz

text: told

text: a

text: room

text: full

text: of

text: eager

text: photographers

text: and

text: entertainment

text: journalists

text: But

text: the

text: Lebanese

text: paparazzi

text: still

text: wondered

text: why

text: Beirut

text: This

text: is

text: my

text: first

text: chance

text: to

text: party

text: with

text: the

text: people

text: of

text: Lebanon

text: Snoop

text: said

text: They

text: were

text: always

text: partying

text: to

text: my

text: music

text: but

text: now

text: they

text: get

text: a

text: chance

text: to

text: actually

text: party

text: with

text: Snoop

text: Dogg

text: This

text: is

text: the

text: party

text: capital

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: he

text: added

text: and

text: the

text: room

text: filled

text: with

text: applause

text: Hours

text: later

text: Snoop

text: drove

text: the

text: locals

text: wild

text: once

text: again

text: during

text: his

text: performance

text: in

text: front

text: of

text: thousands

text: of

text: adoring

text: young

text: fans

text: by

text: holding

text: up

text: a

text: Lebanese

text: flag

text: on

text: stage

text: and

text: then

text: performing

text: an

text: impromptu

text: sing

text: along

text: with

text: the

text: chorus

text: line

text: Beirut

text: Lebanon

text: When

text: the

text: show

text: ended

text: just

text: before

text: one

text: a.m.

text: Snoop

text: did

text: not

text: leave

text: Beirut

text: without

text: living

text: up

text: to

text: his

text: promise

text: to

text: party

text: hard

text: Acting

text: on

text: a

text: tip

text: from

text: a

text: source

text: close

text: to

text: Snoop

text: 's

text: circle

text: I

text: managed

text: to

text: follow

text: Snoop

text: 's

text: entourage

text: to

text: the

text: afterparty

text: at

text: a

text: massive

text: and

text: highly

text: exclusive

text: rooftop

text: club

text: overlooking

text: the

text: Mediterranean

text: Sea

text: and

text: the

text: Lebanese

text: mountains

text: I

text: entered

text: the

text: club

text: through

text: the

text: back

text: entrance

text: with

text: members

text: of

text: Snoop

text: 's

text: band

text: that

text: I

text: had

text: met

text: at

text: the

text: airport

text: When

text: we

text: got

text: inside

text: the

text: champagne

text: was

text: flowing

text: and

text: the

text: club

text: was

text: rocking

text: with

text: hundreds

text: of

text: people

text: A

text: mixture

text: of

text: house

text: and

text: trance

text: music

text: reverberated

text: across

text: all

text: surfaces

text: as

text: fireworks

text: lit

text: up

text: the

text: evening

text: sky

text: Snoop

text: 's

text: band

text: and

text: crew

text: were

text: ecstatic

text: sporting

text: looks

text: of

text: awe

text: when

text: they

text: reached

text: their

text: VIP

text: tables

text: in

text: the

text: balcony

text: section

text: which

text: boasts

text: outdoor

text: air

text: conditioning

text: And

text: even

text: though

text: the

text: European

text: electric

text: beat

text: was

text: quite

text: a

text: stretch

text: from

text: the

text: hip

text: hop

text: he

text: produces

text: Snoop

text: himself

text: seemed

text: to

text: be

text: getting

text: down

text: waving

text: his

text: hands

text: in

text: the

text: air

text: But

text: it

text: was

text: n't

text: long

text: before

text: the

text: Dogg

text: switched

text: things

text: up

text: grabbed

text: the

text: microphone

text: You

text: are

text: now

text: rocking

text: with

text: the

text: big

text: Snoopie

text: D.O.

text: double

text: jizzle

text: for

text: shizzle

text: dizzle

text: he

text: said

text: sending

text: screams

text: through

text: the

text: glamorous

text: crowd

text: Then

text: he

text: turned

text: toward

text: the

text: DJ

text: podium

text: Hey

text: Yo

text: DJ

text: Why

text: do

text: n't

text: you

text: play

text: some

text: of

text: that

text: Snoop

text: Dogg

text: sh*t

text: Once

text: again

text: the

text: crowd

text: was

text: electrified

text: as

text: Snoop

text: began

text: rapping

text: to

text: his

text: track

text: Drop

text: it

text: Like

text: It

text: 's

text: Hot

text: Part

text: of

text: the

text: that

text: performance

text: is

text: available

text: on

text: Snoop

text: 's

text: Web

text: site

text: Later

text: he

text: played

text: other

text: local

text: favorites

text: such

text: as

text: Gin

text: and

text: Juice

text: and

text: then

text: rocked

text: to

text: a

text: new

text: track

text: That

text: 's

text: the

text: Homie

text: from

text: his

text: upcoming

text: album

text: Malice

text: in

text: Wonderland

text: while

text: being

text: filmed

text: by

text: two

text: cameraman

text: and

text: a

text: flash

text: light

text: The

text: Beirut

text: show

text: producer

text: Roger

text: Kalaouz

text: later

text: explained

text: that

text: Snoop

text: was

text: actually

text: filming

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: music

text: video

text: for

text: the

text: new

text: track

text: that

text: night

text: And

text: when

text: Snoop

text: left

text: the

text: club

text: at

text: a.m.

text: the

text: party

text: continued

text: till

text: seven

text: in

text: the

text: morning

text: according

text: to

text: Kalaouz

text: in

text: true

text: Snoop

text: fashion

text: back

text: at

text: the

text: hotel

text: Kalaouz

text: says

text: he

text: 's

text: now

text: preparing

text: for

text: Snoop

text: 's

text: Middle

text: East

text: tour

text: beginning

text: in

text: December

text: with

text: a

text: focus

text: on

text: cities

text: in

text: the

text: oil

text: rich

text: Arabian

text: Gulf

text: states

text: such

text: as

text: the

text: UAE

text: Kuwait

text: Qatar

text: and

text: maybe

text: even

text: Saudi

text: Arabia

text: Though

text: it

text: remains

text: unclear

text: how

text: much

text: Kalaouz

text: actually

text: paid

text: Snoop

text: to

text: perform

text: in

text: Beirut

text: he

text: emphasized

text: that

text: the

text: bidding

text: process

text: was

text: intense

text: with

text: much

text: competition

text: from

text: promoters

text: in

text: other

text: Arab

text: countries

text: Check

text: out

text: Battah

text: 's

text: blog

text: at

text: beirurtreport.blogspot.com

question: What did Snoop say about Beirut?

answer: "This is the party capital of the world,"

text: "This is the party capital of the world,"

question: Who is to performs in Lebanon's capital, Beirut?

answer: Snoop Dogg

text: Snoop Dogg

question: Where did Snoop Dogg perform?

answer: Beirut,

text: Beirut,

question: Does Snoop Dogg plan more visits to the Middle East?

answer: tour beginning in December,

text: tour beginning in December,

question: Where is the party capital of the world?

answer: "Beirut, Lebanon."

text: "Beirut, Lebanon."

question: What did Snoop Dogg say about Beirut?

answer: "This is the party capital of the world,"

text: "This is the party capital of the world,"

question: Who has never visited the Middle East before?

answer: Snoop Dogg

text: Snoop Dogg

question: Which journalist followed Snoop Dogg around?

answer: Habib Battah

text: Habib Battah


text:
(CNN)  -- The Wu-Tang Clan -- the New York hip-hop supergroup that spawned millions of album sales, nine solo acts and a few acting careers -- almost never was.

If RZA, left, had been jailed or Method Man killed, Wu-Tang may have never formed, RZA says.

Method Man, the group's most recognizable voice, was nearly killed before the band formed, Wu-Tang's chief producer, RZA, writes in his forthcoming memoir.

Meth was walking to buy marijuana at 160 Park Hill Avenue in Staten Island -- the house in Wu-Tang's "Protect Ya Neck" video -- when RZA saw him across the street, he writes in the book.

"Come over here, yo!" RZA beckoned, according to "The Tao of Wu" (Riverhead). "He stopped and came running over. A few seconds later -- pow-pow-pow-pow-pow! -- a guy started shooting up the front of 160. A buddy of ours, Poppy, an innocent, school-going, nice guy -- he was shot and killed right there."  Interactive: Where's the Wu been? Â»

It wasn't the only close call RZA said could have snuffed the band that rewrote the rule book for hip-hop acts. The year before the group formed in 1993, RZA was acquitted on an attempted murder charge that could have put him behind bars for eight years, he writes in "The Tao of Wu," out Thursday.

Expanding on the book's anecdotes in an interview with CNN, RZA explained that if he had been imprisoned or if Method Man, aka Clifford Smith, had been killed, the band never would have come to fruition.

RZA, whose real name is Robert Diggs and whose stage name is pronounced "Rizza," also talked about his role in the death of his cousin, Russell Jones, better known as Ol' Dirty Bastard or ODB. Two days before his 36th birthday in 2004, ODB died in a New York recording studio from an overdose of cocaine and painkillers.

RZA writes in the book that he once witnessed ODB force his own son to watch him do drugs. RZA tried to leave, he writes, but ODB wouldn't let him. Now, RZA told CNN, he wishes he would've been tougher with ODB about his drug problem.

Following are excerpts from the interview, which has been edited for language, flow and length:

CNN: Could your imprisonment or Method Man's death have derailed Wu-Tang's formation?

RZA: Either one of those incidents could definitely have derailed it. Of course, myself being the abbot, the one who came with the idea, if I wouldn't have made it out of that tumultuous time -- it seemed like I wasn't going to make it out of it; there was a lot of odds against me -- but we stood strong, and self-defense made sense to the jury. We beat that ...

It was the victory over that incident that made me change my whole direction. In a way, it's double-edged in that incident. One, if I would've lost that, yeah, Wu-Tang wouldn't have happened, but also it's the victory of it that inspired me and gave me the drive also to go and really get serious about Wu-Tang and the things I was dealing with.

Same thing with Meth, he always brings it up ... that that day saved his life. He actually said, if it was anybody else calling him, he wouldn't have came.

CNN: In the book, you cite lessons from Eastern religions, Christianity, Islam, [Nation of Islam offshoot] Five Percent, numerology, comic books, kung fu, chess. What would you say to someone who says it's difficult to reconcile these dogmas?

RZA: Like it says in the Bible, "In the beginning was the word, and the word became flesh" -- if we go to the root of the word, we will find that, yeah, everything is similar. Everything is teaching us all the same path.

It's just that one religion was good for these people because of their living conditions. In the Quran, they mention paradise being filled with wells, wells of water, and if you're in the desert and you've got a chance to get water and gardens -- as they describe paradise in the holy Quran -- if you're going to get gardens, that's the paradise that fits your situation. ... Everything they're saying relates to the people they're talking to. ...

You remove the messenger and take the message.

CNN: You say in the book that your penchant for violent lyrics in your younger years "was a product of my history and environment" and that it no longer represents you. But you also say you won't repudiate violence. Why not?

RZA: One reason I haven't repudiated it is because when it's necessary, it's necessary. [The Bible's] Ecclesiastes tell us there's a time for everything -- a time for war, a time for peace -- so in times for war, there's time for violence.

Then in [the Hindu scripture] Bhagavad Gita, it says Arjuna was talking, Arjuna didn't want to commit violent acts against an army that was attacking him. He couldn't find it in his heart to do it. It was people he loved. He didn't want to get into violence, but Krishna had to point out to him, "Your duty is your duty." ...

So, to me, violence in the light of justice is still violent, but I don't see it the same. It's because of justice that I don't repudiate violence because justice must be served somehow.

CNN: ODB was a product of his environment as well. To what degree were you and other Wu-Tang members responsible for his death?

RZA: The guys would say it's more me than them because they say that's my cousin and I was right there. If you let a man that you love or anybody -- man, woman or child that you love -- sit there and destroy themselves in front of you, you're neglecting them ...

Everybody let him do what he wanted to do. ... There were times when I took his drugs and threw them down the toilet. When I do that, he would get so pissed off I don't see him for weeks after that. ...

So it got to a point, I was like, "[expletive] it, let him do his drugs" just to have him around me, just to keep him there. ... But it's still neglect, yo.

CNN: You say you ran Wu-Tang like a dictatorship in its first five years. I know you and Raekwon have had creative differences and Ghostface Killah is suing you over royalties. Ever regret the dictatorship approach?

RZA: I don't regret it because it got us to the power we are. ...

To me, in the beginning, the dictatorship led us to such a strong foundation that even though Wu-Tang seemed to be crumbling, it didn't fall because of the root foundation of one man's idea. But now as it's coming back together -- we're living in the twilight age of it right now -- it's still surviving because of the democracy of it.

CNN: Wu-Tang is still around, but nothing like the heyday of the 1990s. Will we ever see a renaissance?

RZA: Well, to me, Wu-Tang is beyond Wu-Tang Clan. ... It's just like hip-hop is beyond Grandmaster Flash, but Grandmaster Flash was one of the first guys to hit those turntables like that. ...

The same thing with Wu-Tang. You'll see the difference in hip-hop from the moment we came in to before we came in. We changed it. We changed the whole structure.

CNN: Have you accomplished everything you've set out to accomplish?

RZA: I'm me and the me that's me is me and is going to continue to be me, and it's always reaching and growing. I'm grateful for what I've accomplished. I'm grateful for anyone who thinks I accomplished something and says, "Well he did this; he did that." I'm proud to be accepted, but I feel like I've just scratched the surface for some weird reason.

CNN's Kyle Almond contributed to this report.

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question: RZA talks about forming what in upcoming memoir?

answer: Wu-Tang

text: Wu-Tang

question: What did the Wu-Tang producer say could have derailed the band?

answer: imprisonment or Method Man's death

text: imprisonment or Method Man's death

question: RZA said who made son watch him do drugs?

answer: ODB

text: ODB

question: when is the memoir coming out

answer: Thursday.

text: Thursday.