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Iraq's cabinet met Tuesday for roughly one hour and discussed the role of security companies in the wake of a violent incident in Baghdad Sunday when a U.S. convoy protected by Blackwater contractors killed a reported eight Iraqis and wounded others. According to a senior Iraqi official who spoke to TIME, the cabinet decided to uphold a previous decision by the Minister of the Interior to suspend Blackwater's license. According to the senior official, Blackwater will be allowed to continue to operate inside the Green Zone, which includes the U.S. embassy and Iraqi government offices. But "they will...
...early June, I awoke one morning to the sound of dozens of helicopters swarming past my apartment toward Hollywood Hills. I feared the worst. It’s a terrorist attack and Jack Bauer is nowhere to be found. But no—turning on CNN, I realized this convoy was bound for Paris Hilton’s courtroom, because she was due back before the judge. (In case you missed it, her privileged butt was sent back to jail.) The news you might have overlooked that day was that Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
...still quite visible. Over the weekend thousands of Sharif's supporters were detained or thrown in jail on specious charges. Last night the secretary general of his party was taken in by security forces, despite having set up a safe house in anticipation of such an occurrence. And a convoy of party leaders setting out for the airport to greet Sharif was stopped less than two miles from its departure point by scores of police armed with riot shields and metal-tipped bamboo staves. Parliamentarian Tamina Dultana, vice president of Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party, jumped...
...Presiding over the ceremony is Gandhi's grandson, the current Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi. And following the presentation, in an act of commemoration, he set off in a convoy to Beliaghata, a poor Muslim locality in the outskirts of the city. This was where his grandfather, at the height of tensions in 1947, had moved into accommodations far more humble than the Viceroy's Palace. Hindu refugees fleeing death and persecution in East Bengal (soon to be made into East Pakistan and later independent Bangladesh) besieged Muslim areas like Beliaghata seeking revenge for their sufferings. Gandhi sought to deter further killings...
...Wednesday, hundreds, if not thousands, of ordinary Calcuttans flocked around the Governor's convoy as it approached the recently refurbished house where Gandhi had starved and saved Calcutta in 1947. They filled its courtyard and crammed the gully lanes winding along its sides that had once been overrun by those angry mobs. Far from the dignified solemnity of the old Viceroy's Palace, dozens chattered and applauded when the Governor laid flower petals at an altar to Gandhi. Crowds of enthusiastic well-wishers turned his polite withdrawal into a prolonged retreat...