Word: attackable
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Jeffry M. Picower, an education philanthropist who invested billions in Bernard L. Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme, was found dead in his swimming pool after suffering a heart attack last Sunday—less than a year after his foundation pulled the plug on millions of dollars in promised funding for diabetes research at the Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals...
...charged that Tehran was playing a "double game" in Afghanistan, seeking good relations with Kabul while funneling arms to insurgents. "They profess to have warm relations with the Afghan government," Gates said. "At the same time, they're sending in a relatively modest level of weapons and capabilities to attack ... coalition forces." In August, Afghan forces discovered a cache of weapons - including EFPs - in the western part of the country that shares a border with Iran...
...moment of revulsion for some of the family members of those who died in the 1988 bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103: the only person convicted in the attack, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, being set free and receiving a hero's welcome on the tarmac in his native Libya. Now, two months after al-Megrahi's controversial release, Scottish police are diving back into the two-decade-old investigation in hopes of identifying the former Libyan intelligence officer's suspected accomplices - and providing some peace of mind to relatives of the 270 people killed in the attack...
...Relatives of the victims, many of whom feel they have long been denied the consolation of justice, cautiously welcomed the review. Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora died in the attack, told reporters, "I think if they are really going to have a meaningful investigation, then that is all well and good and long overdue. But if it is just a dodge to prevent an investigation into why the lives of those killed were not protected, then I would be livid...
...Many family members have long sought an independent inquiry into the events leading up to and immediately following the bombing to determine whether any government policies in place at the time were indirectly to blame for the attack. "Underpinning our request for this inquiry is our belief that unless we understand and acknowledge the complicated series of events that led to the decision to put a bomb on Flight 103, no lessons will be learned," Pamela Dix, whose brother Peter died in the bombing, wrote in a commentary in the Guardian newspaper on Monday. (Read "Lockerbie Bomber Returns to Cheers...