Scene by scene, they saw the fall of the Twin Towers, the ensuing assault on Afghanistan, the ousting of the Taliban and the escape of Bin Laden, all interspersed with the occasional song and several hair-raisingly fierce explosions, meant to denote gun fights.There were occasional swipes at Tony Blair, but the Americans took a hammering. The upper echelons of the US government were represented by a portly, Burton-esque actor dressed in a clownishly ill-fitting jacket and a fat floral tie, and an oil-obsessed gangster wearing wrap-around sun glasses, an even more sinister figure than the intelligence officer who had sought to stop our journey earlier in the day.The soldiers of the Northern Alliance were portrayed as grotesques; snarling beasts who raped women and, in one particularly disturbing mime, urinating in the mouth of a Taliban captive. By contrast, Bin Laden and his small band of bearded followers – though unpleasant and clearly fanatical – seemed relatively tame.Still, Sarkar was true to his word: as the play came to an end, the actors filled the stage and sang in unison. A world away from Hyde Park, Baghdad and the Pentagon, a makeshift tent in rural India filled with a cry for peace, not war.And, at 2am as the crowd filed thoughtfully away into the night, huddling against the cold as they trudged another two or three miles home with their children in arms, it was possible to hope that, at least in this remote corner of the world, the message had got through Raja Sarkar certainly thought so. “I am very, very happy,” he said, as his thespians packed up their costumes and made ready to leave “We have educated the people It could not have gone better.”. Fire raged through two packed underground trains in South Korea today after a man lit a carton filled with an inflammable material Police and firefighters expect the death toll to reach 120. Police and firefighters expect the death toll to reach 120.
A suspect was under interrogation in Daegu, South Korea’s third-largest city, but police still did not know what motivated the attack.The fire started in one six-carriage train at a station, igniting seats and spreading to another train also stopped at the station.

Many more bodies were still in the obliterated remains of the trains, a fire department official said.”We are receiving reports from firefighters at the scene that there are about 100 bodies inside the train cars,” said Chung Myong-sook, an official with the fire department in Daegu.Firefighters gave horrifying accounts of the scene underground, with victims asphyxiated as they tried to escape up the stairs. On the platform were the ashen bones of those trapped in the flames.Chung Sook-jae, 54, rushed to the scene after her daughter, 26-year-old Min Shim-eun, telephoned her husband to say she was suffocating Then the line went dead.”She never caused any problems She was a good kid Why does this have to happen her?” Chung said, crying “If she’s not out by now, she’s probably dead. What am I going to do if her body is all burned out of recognition?”Police were interrogating Kim Dae-han, 56, who witnesses said carried the carton into the subway car. Lieutenant Kim Byong-hak said: “When the man tried to use a cigarette lighter to light the box, some passengers tied to stop him.

Apparently a scuffle erupted and the box exploded into flames.”.Authorities said that the fire was put out three hours after it started, but toxic gas in the tunnel delayed rescue efforts. The acrid odor of burned plastic wafted over the scene hours later.The television station YTN aired footage of the chaotic scene inside a nearby hospital, showing nurses attending to a man who was reportedly the suspect. The man sat frowning on a bed wearing a hospital smock, his face and hands smudged with soot.Yu Heung-soo, a police sergeant in Daegu, said Kim had been burned on both legs and the right wrist. But a doctor told YTN that the man’s only injury was toxic gas inhalation.YTN also reported that the suspect worked as truck driver and had once threatened to burn down the hospital where he had received unsatisfactory treatment.