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...many as 120 sank. Some 70 immigrants were saved, while 10 bodies, four of them women, were recovered as Coast Guard patrols continued to search for signs of the missing. Law enforcement officials repeatedly note that there are almost certainly entire boatloads in the illegal trafficking ring that simply disappear without any way of tracing them...
...That kind of talk enrages Sunnis who face the brunt of the militias' murderous depredations. Adopting the same simplistic approach as their Shi'ite counterparts, Sunni politicians say Baghdad's security problems would disappear if only the U.S. would mount a major offensive operation in Sadr City. "They know the problem, the know the solution," says Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, a Sunni. "So why aren't they doing something...
...reverted to the tactics they have periodically employed - with little effect - against Sunni insurgents and terrorists in Baghdad over the past three years: cordoning entire neighborhoods, intensive patrolling, house-to-house searches, surprise raids. But at best, these measures have brought only temporary relief. Militias and insurgents know to disappear when the U.S. military arrives. Past experience shows that once the soldiers move on, the violence returns. After three days of extended curfews and intensive patrolling in Amariyah, a mainly Sunni neighborhood that was controlled by jihadi groups, the U.S. last week declared the area safe and ended the cordon...
...Jody Rell or centrist Republican House member Chris Shays were slotted in for Schlesinger. But both are in hot races important to the GOP, and neither is likely capable of taking out even a wounded Lieberman. One thing is clear: If the GOP has any plans to make Schlesinger disappear and pull a magic candidate out of the hat, the Dems haven't caught wind of it. "I have yet to see evidence that they've got a viable candidate to put on the ticket," says a Democratic strategist...
Castro: At that time the U.S. and Cuba will be friends. The awareness of the need for peace will have made great strides, and the so-called embargoes by you and by us would have disappeared-- out of mental illness--out of stupidity, it will disappear...