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...edged sword." As a former U.S. counterterrorism official, he sees the value of keeping the sites up so intelligence services can collect "forensic" evidence. "It's important to see what they are saying," he says, noting that Hizballah has resource bases in Indonesia and the tri-border area (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay) of South America. Given Hizballah's links to Iran, which offers its operatives diplomatic cover around the world, according to Burton, monitoring Hizballah's Internet presence is vital as part of the "cat and mouse" game with Western intelligence. But shutting them down also limits their fundraising, recruiting...
...excuse to show lowlifes in low lighting. And if Higgins supplied the craft of Mann's noir films, cinematographer John Alton surely served up the art. Before hooking up with Mann, Alton had a nomad's r?sum?: born in Hungary, an assistant in Hollywood silent films, shooting pictures in Argentina in the '30s, then B and C movies back in America. The two men clicked as collaborators, sparking with extreme visual tropes, each instantly elevating the other's work. "I found a director in Tony Mann who thought like I did," he told Todd McCarthy in the illuminating introduction...
...Israel. Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered both the West Bank and Gaza - where fighting against Hamas and other militants continues unabated - completely sealed until at least Saturday. Furthermore, Israeli intelligence is concerned Hizballah might try to attack Israelis and Jews abroad, as they did in 1990 and 1994 in Argentina...
...notorious head-butt. For France, all but four of the 14 players used in the game were children or grandchildren of Africa, from both sides of the Sahara. Italy's lineup, by contrast, had no players of immigrant origin (although Mauro Camoranesi's grandparents had left Italy for Argentina) - the Azzuri were, to put it bluntly, the whitest of the Western European teams at the World Cup. Italian soccer has long been a magnet for fascist nostalgia of the far right, and festivities following its triumph were marred by Swastikas spray-painted on the walls of Rome's historic Jewish...
...electing conservatives, Colombia and Mexico have bucked the leftist trend sweeping through Latin America. Over the past few years, left-of center governments have come to power by winning elections in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, and Peru...