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...unless and until we go to the sanctuaries, to the training grounds, to the financiers, to the motivators of hatred that come across the border to kill us all. [And yet] the allies have not heard us. If we see [the fight against terrorism] as an effort aimed at the right target, spoken about with us, with a proper identification of the problem areas, then we can go along, and in that situation if we suffer civilian casualties, all right, we will accept it. You can't have casualties and no end in sight...
...apace with building its sales network there: by the end of this year, it aims to have a dealership in 47 Russian cities with populations of more than 300,000. One of the biggest corporate-investment programs, by Italy's Enel - which has spent about $6 billion on an effort to become a player in Russia's electricity-generation industry - also remains on track, according to company officials. They say the firm will invest a further $3 billion on revamping and building new power plants in Russia...
...been in the international spotlight and still carried out a harsh crackdown against activists and other dissenting voices without real repercussions, its hardliners might argue that they could continue those tight controls even after the Olympics are fading memories. Another school of thought, however, believes the national social mobilization effort, such as getting hundreds of thousands of citizen volunteers to look out for terrorists in the capital, and the economic cost of ensuring a peaceful and smooth Games mean the authorities will have no choice but to loosen their grip...
...While Russian troops control checkpoints around the edge of Tskhinvali, locals and men from North Ossetia are now making a concerted effort to raze the Georgian areas just north of the town...
...gold medalists in recruiting foreign-born athletes are Qatar and Bahrain, tiny oil-rich Gulf states that have poached top runners from Kenya, Morocco, and Ethiopia. The effort took off in the 1990s, when Qatar began importing Bulgarian weight lifters, one of whom, Angel Popov, won a bronze medal in the 2000 Olympics under his adopted Arab name, Saif Saeed Asaad. Since then, Qatar and Bahrain have each shelled out millions of dollars to persuade athletes to change their citizenship, tossing in lucrative incentives for setting world records and bringing home Olympic gold...