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...joint U.S.-Thai press conference Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul, head of immigration police, said Karr had admitted killing Ramsey, but had told his interrogators it was "unintentional." "He said he loved the girl," Suwat said. Ann Hurst, a Bangkok attach? of the Department of Homeland Security, said Karr was cooperating with U.S. investigators and had waived his right to a lawyer...
...Pentagon offered to supply Israel with "bunker-buster" bombs, capable of punching deep into the enemy's underground defenses. Israel's air force chief at the time, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, - who, as Chief of Staff, is currently commanding Israel's air, sea and land strikes in Lebanon - rejected Washington's offer, claiming that Israel had its own superb weapons. But with the "bunker-busters", says a senior Tel Aviv intelligence source, Israel could have knocked out most of Hizballah's rocket-launchers and possibly brought the war to an early close...
...military announced Wednesday that four Iraqis suspected of involvement in her kidnapping had been arrested. At a press briefing, the top military spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, showed pictures of houses in insurgent strongholds between Fallujah and Baghdad that officials believe were used to hide the journalist. Caldwell did not specify when exactly the arrests occurred, but another U.S. official, Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, tells TIME the suspects were detained in mid- to late May, not two months after Carroll was recovered. He says the story was withheld to give the military enough time to investigate possible connections...
...Lebanon, Hizballah's support would be even wider, making it even less likely that the government could order the Army to move against it. "The Lebanese Army will never be given any orders to disarm any militia, especially under these circumstances when Hizballah is being attacked by Israel," said Gen. Ismail. "The Lebanese army is not going to fight other Lebanese. There would be civil...
...Even with extensive modification, of course, the Lebanese army is unlikely to be a match for its more powerful neighbors, Israel and Syria. "We are a small country and we have to rely on international agreements to protect ourselves," said Gen. Ismail. But international treaties and allies have failed Lebanon in the past. And with the international community still refraining from imposing an immediate cease-fire, many Lebanese continue to look to Hizballah as their only defense against the Israeli invader...