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(CBS/AP) AKCAKALE, Turkey — Syrian rebels have seized control of a border crossing on the frontier with Turkey and pulled down the Syrian flag. An Associated Press reporter at the scene Wednesday says Syrians on the Turkish side of the border are celebrating and yelling, “I am a free Syrian!” People are moving freely across the border, 카지노 양방 crawling under barbed wire. There were fierce clashes Tuesday as rebels and regime forces fought for control of the Tal Abyad crossing. Syria’s rebels control several other border crossings into Turkey but it is believed to be the first time they have tried to take the border area in the northern province of Raqqa. More in After the Arab Spring Video: Safety, yet little hope for Syrian refugeesReports: Syrian missiles hit LebanonU.N.:Foreigners making Syrian rebels radical Taking control of border crossings helps the opposition ferry supplies into Syria and carve out an area of control. As of early September, it was believed that at least 80,000 Syrians had fled the war in their country and become refugees in the sprawling camps in Turkey. U.N.:Record 100K fled Syria in August CBS News correspondent Holly Williams reports that the Turkish government is having to build new camps and move refugees into them before they are even completed due to the huge influx of Syrians. Williams reports that of the roughly 8,000 Syrians...

Julie Taymor was doing “backyard theatre” at the age of 7, was a member of the Boston Children’s Theatre Company by the age of 11, and traveled in Sri Lanka as a teenager. She says her parents gave her the freedom to be herself, and to follow her interests no matter how far away those interests took her. Taymor also told Moriarty that she was so emotionally close to her parents that she never really felt far from home. From her travels — especially the four years she spent as a young woman in Indonesia — Taymor got insights and skills that informed all of her later work, including “The Lion King.” This show has been widely praised as an innovative stage work unlike anything that came before. What she proposed to Disney as her best idea, while admitting others would also work, was the most original and therefore the riskiest. Taymor created what she calls “the double event” which enables the audience to see the characters as animal and human at the same time. Taymor believed in this concept and Disney believed in her. So Taymor’s best artistic vision is what “Lion King” audiences see. This past spring “The Lion King” opened in Johannesburg. Taymor says for her and those she worked with to create the show, that was “the most thrilling, moving experience of our lives —...

“(It’s) partly because public opinion has really shifted on the war, so there might be a marketing aspect to that,” says Ron Eyerman, a professor of sociology at Yale, about the sudden flood of Iraq-themed or related films. “But of course it takes a long time to make a film, so you’re not going to watch public opinion polls and then start to make a film. The timing of that just doesn’t work.” Films that have already played include Paul Haggis’ “In The Valley of Elah,” about a retired veteran (Tommy Lee Jones) trying to find out why his son was brutally murdered after shipping back from Iraq, and “The Kingdom,” a look at homegrown terrorism in Saudi Arabia dressed in the clothes of an action thriller. More recently, Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep top-lined “Rendition,” about a woman whose Arab-American husband is seized and tortured by the U.S. government. The documentary “No End in Sight,” a critical analysis of the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq, surfaced on DVD last month after a limited theatrical run. Still to come is director and star Robert Redford’s “Lions for Lambs” (Nov. 9), which tells three stories about war, patriotism, and the media build-up to the invasion; Brian de Palma’s reportedly brutal “Redacted” (Nov. 16), which uses video-cam footage for an ultra-realistic take on the true story of U.S. soldiers who raped...

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(CBS/AP) KABUL, Afghanistan The Taliban claimed responsibility on Saturday for an attack against a sprawling British base in southern Afghanistan that killed two U.S. Marines and wounded several other troops, saying it was to avenge an anti-Islamic film that insulted the Prophet Muhammad, and because Britain’s Prince Harry is serving there. Taliban spokesman Kari Yousef Ahmed told CBS News the primary motive for the attack was the film, but the base was picked as the place to attack because of Prince Harry’s presence there. The U.S.-led NATO coalition said in a statement that the overnight attack focused on Camp Bastion, a huge British base adjacent to Camp Leatherneck, which houses U.S. Marine operations in southern Helmand province. “We attacked that base because Prince Harry was also on it and so they can know our anger,” Taliban spokesman Qari Youssef Ahmadi told The Associated Press by telephone. He added, “Thousands more suicide attackers are ready to give up their lives for the sake of the Prophet.” Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, is based at Camp Bastion. A spokesperson for Britain’s Ministry of Defense told the AP he was unharmed in the attack which, according to Britain’s Press Association, took place a mile from the section of the complex where the prince was located. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, in line with government policy. Capt....