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...standards of Arab strongmen, Hassan Nasrallah is a charmer. In televised appearances made from the undisclosed location where he shelters from Israeli bombs, the Hizballah leader appears more soothing than bellicose. There is none of Saddam Hussein's finger wagging or Yasser Arafat's eye-bulging lectures or Osama bin Laden's hectoring sneer. Instead, Nasrallah reads deliberately from notes, occasionally swallowing as if to catch his breath. Every so often, he looks into the camera and flashes a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nasrallah Under Pressure | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

...1980s furniture), their world expands. Joining them are a priest (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), an ex-cop (Michelle Rodriguez) and scary "Others" who don't like sharing their island. This detail-packed drama is worth watching for the first time, or for the second, with a finger on the PAUSE and REWIND buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Stellar Series to Catch Up with on DVD | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...government's standard response to each new outrage is to deny that police were involved and instead finger "criminal gangs" wearing knockoff uniforms and using stolen weapons and vehicles. Occasionally, blame is directed at the militias but never by name. After all, the political groups that control the militias are key components of the Shi'ite coalition that has the most seats in parliament and that includes al-Maliki's party. The only militia to feel the Prime Minister's "iron fist" was the toothless Mujahedin-e-Khalq, a small, unarmed band of Iranian rebels dedicated to toppling the regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In Hell: A Baghdad Diary | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, the seniormost Sunni in the Iraqi government. We met in his chintz-laden Green Zone office on the day of the al-Jihad murders. Many of the victims had been dragged out of their homes and shot dead in the street. As usual, the finger of blame pointed to the Mahdi Army. After al-Hashimi had fulminated about the slaughter of his fellow Sunnis, I asked whether the murdering militiamen might have been seeking revenge for the previous week's bombing of the market in Sadr City. Al-Hashimi's response was to claim that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In Hell: A Baghdad Diary | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...that surprising that the United Nations and others are trading charges in the wake of the Israeli air strike that killed four U.N. observers in South Lebanon Tuesday. But the finger-pointing is also going on inside the Israeli military over who is in fact responsible for the deadly incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's to Blame for the U.N. Attack? | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

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