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[0daypress live] The Latest From Green Zone « 0daypress live:  to the question of whether Bourne 4 was still on his agenda, the director was more fulsome on Green Zone. ”It’s almost done. It’s a thriller, it’s got a lot of action, and I made it about something I feel very passionate about,” he said of the post- Iraq-war thriller, which sees Matt Damon’s WMD-hunting chief warrant officer Miller make powerful enemies within the US-run administration.

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[Daniel Silva's Amazon Blog] Daniel Silva's Amazon Blog: Daniel Silva rules with thriller ...: The novel featured a character described as one of the most memorable and compelling in contemporary fiction, the art restorer and sometime Israeli secret agent Gabriel Allon, and though Silva did not realize it at the time, Gabriel’s adventures had only just begun. Gabriel Allon appeared in Silva’s next six novels, each one more successful than the last: The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger and The Secret Servant.

[News: News blog | guardian.co.uk] Throw a shoe at Bush with new viral video game | News | guardian.co.uk: The Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, can be seen peeping over a lectern next to Bush in the mock-up of the now-infamous joint news briefing on Sunday when an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at the US president. The game gives a running total of shoes to have hit Bush in the face - there were 6,722,892 successful hits at the time of writing.

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