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...have escaped the dragnet. On June 5, militias surrounded a car carrying U.S. diplomats and threatened to kill them. The regime has also arrested and beaten journalists, local and foreign. On June 18, the government eased an earlier ban on foreign aid groups, whom it accused of supporting the MDC, allowing food and HIV/AIDS groups to re-enter the country. But the same day it expelled an official from the U.N. High Commission for Refugees...
...side of the debate stage is Star Trek, however, the question-asking side looks like Dragnet. In the Democratic debates, Obama and Hillary Clinton have taken questions from Charles Gibson, Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Wolf Blitzer--white guy, white guy, white guy, white...
...people from associated Wall Street firms to help with the search. Together, they posted 250,000 flyers with the girl’s picture throughout the city. The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes reports, “Twenty hours later, a New Jersey family heard of the dragnet, called the police, and reported Melissa was safe with them...
...should get closer." And so I find myself in a crowd near the Sule Pagoda, facing soldiers and riot police. Only a handful of monks have escaped the junta's dragnet to join this protest. When more trucks pull up at the intersection, and the troops inside noisily cock their rifles, the crowd tenses as one. Seconds later, there are explosions - more smoke bombs - and we are running for our lives...
Only a handful of monks escape the junta's dragnet to join that day's demonstration near the Sule Pagoda. But there are thousands of protesters when I arrive. More military trucks pull up at the intersection, and the troops inside noisily cock their rifles. The crowd tenses as one. Seconds later, there are more smoke bombs, and we are running for our lives...