Word: corrupter
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...commanders are little better than gangsters, men who made fortunes when they arrived from exile in Tunis in 1994 by siphoning off aid, creating monopolies, grabbing property, and running protection rackets. Hamas militants, by contrast, have a reputation for discipline and honesty and have vowed to hunt down corrupt Fatah officials. Nor does it help that in 1996, as Arafat tried to wipe out opposition to him, dozens of Islamic militants were jailed, tortured and murdered by his supporters. "Fatah guys were worse than the Israelis," recalled a member of a third militant group, Islamic Jihad. "The Israelis would stop...
...elections. Eventually the gunmen backed off. In its last days in power, Fatah placed dozens more militiamen in key security jobs. It isn't just loss of power that irks. According to Hamas officials involved with the investigations, the Islamic group has been compiling fat files on corrupt Fatah officials, intending to prosecute them soon. One Hamas web site shows a document detailing the sale to a Fatah official of an armor-plated...
...overtures in international diplomacy: this was the first Winter Olympics where the two Koreas marched under one flag. This two-week display of human endeavor and international accord succeeds because the values of the Games are ultimately more powerful than the divisive forces embodied by world wars, racism, or corrupt figure skating judges. Baron de Coubertin’s vision remains intact. During the last two weeks, the world was once again host to something thoroughly improbable: a gathering of approximately 2,700 athletes from six continents, demonstrating the best that our world has to offer in sportsmanship and sheer...
...Beverly Hills psychiatrist, at the request by Cunningham's lawyers, wrote in a report for last Friday's sentencing hearing that around the time Cunningham's corrupt activity began to be exposed last year, the Attending Physician's office found that he had "symptoms of severe depression with a 60-pound weight loss" and referred him to "the psychiatrist for the United States Senate and the House of Representatives...
Victims of the sectarian violence have little faith that the country's politicians will find a way to stop the killings--and hold no hope of getting justice from a largely corrupt and inept police force that many Sunnis believe has been infiltrated by Shi'ite militias and death squads. "Those who killed my cousins will be punished," says Mohammed, "but not by the police or the government. They will answer to God." Many others are pinning their hopes for revenge on armed vigilantes or sectarian militias like the Mahdi Army and Sunni insurgent groups. Although politicians and religious leaders...