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...names or not, we are all dead men in this market," says the 54-year-old as he squats on a white platform in his little store. Kawran Bazaar, a sprawling complex of wholesale markets and retail shops near the heart of the capital, is a hunting ground for gun-wielding extortionists who don't hesitate to kill if they are refused their protection money. On Feb. 9 six suspected extortionists shot dead Mostafa Kamal, a travel agent who worked near Kawran Bazaar. Business has now dropped off sharply for Siraj and his neighbors, who are scared they could...
...Ronald Reagan sent jets to bomb his compound in 1986 after Libyan agents blew up a Berlin disco popular with U.S. soldiers. Gaddafi's regime sold arms to the I.R.A., brought down Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in 1988, killed an unarmed policewoman with a blast of machine gun fire from its London embassy, and still supports Robert Mugabe's despotism in Zimbabwe. So seeing Tony Blair shake Gaddafi's hand last week in a ceremonial tent near Tripoli was a head-snapping diplomatic moment. But to Blair, the reward justified the awkwardness: after years of negotiations with London...
...trials, a defendant's attorney often performed handsprings in denying the Mob's very existence. "What Mafia?" the lawyer would ask, with the righteous nonchalance of a cigarette manufacturer disclaiming any harm in his product. Breitbart, who has defended Mob suspects for more than 20 years and wore a gun holster during a recent interview, says he will skip the denial: "If they are going to bring in 15 witnesses to say Joe's a father in organized crime, why beat my head against a wall?" Breitbart's plan is to beat the feds' heads instead. "It doesn't matter...
...doesn't mess around, either. On the day after Clarke first made his charge on 60 Minutes that before 9/11 the White House had minimized the terrorism threat, it sent out its biggest gun-the Vice President of the United States-to defend its performance. And where did Bush send Cheney to make the response on the most crucial issue of this presidency? There were many respectable forums available...
...tough guy. I was in the army,” Chen said. “If I had a gun, those two kids would be gone...