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Dina, a Jordanian-born tiger, looks at visitors from its cage in Jordan's Zoo near Amman March 10, 2008. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN)
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Early last century, the biggest threat to the Hejaz Railway was Britain’s T.E. Lawrence and his camel-mounted Arab rebels, who sabotaged the desert track to attack trains packed with Turkish soldiers. Today, a lack of passengers and improved highways may kill off the Hejaz Train once and for all, a quiet demise for a train that entered popular imagination thanks to Lawrence’s war exploits, later turned into the classic film “Lawrence of Arabia.”