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...Israeli casualties. Indeed, the Israelis are aware that Hamas has been hoping for a ground operation, in the belief that it offers the militants a chance to fight on a more level playing field than when Israel attacks from the skies, and also because the inevitable Israeli withdrawal will almost certainly be proclaimed as a victory by the Islamists no matter how badly they were bloodied by the invasion...
Scarborough, Joe •claim of Bush administration's blamelessness in current Israel-Hamas strife by elicits strong rebuttal - "You know, you have such a stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on that it's almost embarrassing to listen to you" - by co-host's father...
...government for the past 5 1/2 years, to Iraqi control. And poles bearing the Iraqi flag were placed prominently at the front gates of shared military bases across the country, symbolizing an Iraqi security force in control. There are new, written ground rules: the U.S. military must now conduct almost all its operations with Iraqi forces, and all arrests must be carried out with warrants issued by Iraqi judges...
...Sarkozy's seemingly lax solution to tackling France's car-burning bonanza hardly reflects the gravity and scope of the problem. Nearly 43,000 cars were torched in France over the whole of 2007 - an average of almost 118 per day. Alliot-Marie stressed that the rise in the number of burnt cars on New Year's Eve 2008 came at the end of a year in which the total number of autos set alight in the first 11 months had decreased 15%, compared with the same period in 2007. But while annual figures may fluctuate, they've generally swelled...
...been doing it every Sunday during the winter for the past 25 years. Ten years ago, there'd be about eight of us showing up regularly. So about five years ago we reorganized the club and made it more accessible to people instead of being this almost secret group that met on the beach...