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...height. The previous week, Israeli troops had bulldozed into the refugee camp in Jenin, in the West Bank, smashing the infrastructure of another militant group, Islamic Jihad, but also killing civilians. Israeli forces were easily beating Hamas forces in Gaza too; in Ramallah, Yasser Arafat was practically under house arrest as Israeli snipers took up position around the seat of the Palestinian government...
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...Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, a 4,000-troop force that arrived in Baghdad in mid-October to start a 12-month tour. They say they started complying with the new agreement over a month ahead of schedule, coordinating their movements with Iraqi forces and obtaining arrest warrants from Iraqi judges. Everything else, they say, stays the same...
...what if your con is certain to fail? Why would any self-respecting scoundrel pick a scheme that's guaranteed to end in handcuffs and a perp walk? That's what a lot of people are asking as 70-year-old Bernie Madoff cools his heels under house arrest, charged with masterminding a decades-long, $50 billion Ponzi scheme that has incinerated wealth around the world. (See the top 10 scandals...
...generation of blogs covers everything from criticizing top ranking officials for chartering planes to monitoring labor violations. Before this month, no formal blogging or Internet restrictions were in place, but several cyber dissidents - such as Huynh Nguyen Dao, Nguyen Bac Truyen and Le Nguyen Sang - have been arrested for posting anti-government propaganda online. The government regularly shuts down politically sensitive blogs, and to avoid arrest, some bloggers have taken to writing under pseudonyms. "They have to use their nickname, and different computers so they can post the article," says Nguyen Thanh Trang, president of the California-based Vietnam Human...