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...former official, Denis Kvasov, and on April 21 impounded a computer server, though the site was up and running the next day. One of those cases has since been returned to the prosecutor's office by a judge, "to remove deficiencies." The IFPI, for its part, is seeking civil damages against Kvasov and Mamotin, but may be chasing shadows. "Both are figureheads," says Vladimir Dragunov, an IFPI lawyer in Moscow. "The real owners are hard to trace. We only know that a Cyprus-based company recently bought and now operates Mediaservices...
...President Franklin Roosevelt said it well: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." TIME's reporting on the NSA seems aimed at making the American people paranoid. Let the civil libertarians be anxious. If monitoring our phones keeps just one American from being harmed, the government can listen to my calls anytime it wants. Norm Rossell Fallbrook, California...
...positions as the emir in charge of Anbar province and the emir in charge of Samarra, north of Baghdad, where the shrine bombing occurred in late February. (It is unclear if he had a hand in that in that incident, which brought Iraq closer to a Shi'a-Sunni civil war than ever before.) Lately, says Abu Bara, Abu Abdul Rahman al Iraqi had been the "right hand" of Zarqawi in Al-Qaeda in Iraq. He has a reputation for being more moderate than Zarqawi, "not a hardliner." And, his relationship with the Arab (non-Iraqi) mujahedeen is very good...
...source of the looming chaos is not just the usual Israeli-Palestinian antagonism. Monday's attacks on the Palestinian parliament and government offices by gunmen of the Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas are a reminder that tensions between the Palestinian factions are escalating into low-intensity civil war - one in which the U.S. could suffer, as in Somalia, as a result of aligning itself too closely with factions viewed with hostility by many of those on the sidelines...
...Administration aides tell TIME that West Wing officials had hoped to reduce the number of troops in Iraq from today's 129,000 to about 100,000 by the end of the year, and possibly before the midterm congressional elections. But the country's slide toward an all-out civil war in recent months had begun to convince them that a drawdown anytime soon would not be feasible. Aides say the White House still wants to preserve the option of eventually saying the Iraqis are prepared to assume greater responsibility, allowing the U.S. to "stand down," as Bush puts...