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...1980s; the 1992 bombing of Israel's embassy in Argentina--put him on the FBI's most-wanted list. After a car bombing in Damascus, officials announced that Hizballah's Imad Mughniyah had been killed. The incident, for which Hizballah blamed Israel (who denied involvement), was a hefty blow to the militant group--it was the first killing of a top leader since 1992. Mughniyah was believed...
...arbitrarily impose his will upon their lives," he says. But he worries that ordinary Pakistanis will not be empowered by the Feb. 18 vote. Bhutto's widower Asif Zardari has pointedly refused to rule out a postelection understanding with Musharraf, and any such deal would be a blow to Ahsan's quest to reinstate the sacked judges. If the Bush Administration encourages such a deal, Ahsan says, it would be going against its promises to promote democracy in Pakistan...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down
Indeed, before Osama bin Laden, there was Imad Mughniyah. And his death is a serious blow to Hizballah...
...Granted, it didn’t help to be without sophomore center Pat Magnarelli, absent due to a knee injury sustained in the Dartmouth loss weeks earlier. Magnarelli had been quickly becoming Harvard’s go-to-guy in the paint, and losing him was a big blow...