Over the past few months, scores of Kurds have begun fleeing into Iraqi Kurdistan, escaping security forces and the violence that is threatening to sweep Kurds from the sidelines of Syria's uprising into its main currents.
After Hastings is outed as a Downer, he is at least left with a melee weapon – useful for escaping security guards – and winds up in an underground bunker stocked with materials that can be crafted into useful items.
FLEE INTO IRAQI KURDISTAN Over the last few months, scores of Kurds have begun fleeing into Iraqi Kurdistan, escaping security forces and the violence that is threatening to sweep Kurds from the sidelines of Syria's uprising into its main currents.
The southeastern section of Johannesburg's city centre is a shabby patch of concrete jungle, where a flyover scythes through a grimy jumble of warehouses and red-brick blocks, their facades shadowed by fire escapes, security bars and hoardings.
The same year there were warnings that animals could escape unless security was improved.
To cut off potential escape routes, security forces have erected new roadblocks and checkpoints in recent days, contributing to traffic gridlock.
They seem to think terror suspects arriving in the US will suddenly develop cartoonish Magneto-like superpowers, allowing them to do things like escape maximum security prisons.
As my colleague Jane Perlez reports, Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese dissident who fled house arrest last week in a dramatic escape from security forces, left the American Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday and is now in a nearby hospital.
An outspoken supporter in the United States of Chinese dissidents, Bob Fu, who heads the ChinaAid Association and was involved in Mr. Chen's escape from security officials last week, said he feared the "U.S. side has abandoned Mr. Chen".
