Word: commit
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...Abbas, however, has no intention of waging war on the very groups with whom he painstakingly negotiated the "hudna." His view of the path to peace is to slowly draw them into the Palestinian Authority, and commit them to the political agreements he negotiates with Israel. Israelis are not impressed, insisting that any further progress on the "roadmap" requires a Palestinian "war on terror," and that Israel won't make further concessions unless they see action. But Abbas refuses to launch a Palestinian civil war, and insists his way is actually working, bringing the calm that almost three years...
...Excused the accused in a high-profile gang-rape case by remarking that they demonstrated virility in a nation where good old-fashioned machismo is fast declining. "I think boys who commit gang rape are in good shape," he said. "I think they are rather normal...
...Thoughtful. Conspiratorial. Crusader. Half-whacked. Smart. Insightful. Wise. Nuts." Well, not nuts. But most of it has a kernel of truth. Earle's reputation as conspiratorial derives largely from the workings of his office's public-integrity unit, a watchdog office that prosecutes those (including elected officials) who commit crimes in the course of their dealings with the state. Earle's job, in other words, is to root out conspiracies...
...Thailand's arrest of three Thai nationals in June and a Singaporean in May sent a chill through the country's balmy resort towns?police alleged the men were part of a Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorist cell planning to commit Bali-style bombings in the tourist resorts of Pattaya and Phuket. Although the accused are in jail awaiting trial, a senior Thai intelligence source says the danger has not passed. An unidentified Thai believed to have planned the attacks remains at large and may still be able to carry them out. "We busted one cell but we know there...
...exercise. The President will be dispensing gifts on his five-day sweep through Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria, - financial aid, money to fight AIDS and trade agreements to support good governance - that may help soften his Administration's negative international image. He may even be poised to commit troops to Liberia to help prevent yet another catastrophic African fratricide, a substantial expansion of military humanitarian peacekeeping of the kind for which he had once sharply criticized his predecessor. But while AIDS, trade, investment, democracy, development and the moral obligation of preventing mass bloodshed may dominate many...