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...Lebanon are tightly monitored by a censorship board attached to the General Security Directorate, the country's most powerful intelligence institution. The board has traditionally banned or censored movies that contain anything that might be construed as Israeli propaganda, anything sexually explicit, and anything that might incite or insult any one of Lebanon's 17 different recognized religious sects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watching Borat in Beirut | 1/9/2007 | See Source »

...final insult for Sharon: American Evangelist Pat Robertson claims (presumably through a reliable source) that Sharon was, in fact, struck down by God as punishment for the Israeli leader's withdrawal of Jewish settlers from Gaza, thereby "dividing" the Holy Land. If anything, according to a new biography written by Uri Dan - an unabashed fan and friend of the stricken Israeli leader - he was continuing his life's work of trying to consolidate Israel's grip on as much of the Holy Land as possible, and he had no intention of giving up West Bank settlements. Dan writes that Sharon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sharon One Year Later | 1/6/2007 | See Source »

...when General Michael Hayden left to head the CIA," the new Senate intelligence committee chairman, Jay Rockefeller, complained in a statement. "It is not acceptable for the top two jobs to be vacant at the same time. The leadership of the Intelligence Community is too important." Adding insult to injury, Negroponte had several times denied he might be moving to State, and the White House failed to notify Rockefeller in advance of the intelligence shuffle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Does Negroponte Leave Intelligence? | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

...Saddam didn't hide what he thought about them either. At one point, he called them "Persians" - in other words, traitors - and his choice of insult was very revealing. Like Saddam, most Iraqi Sunnis view Sadr as all but a paid-up Iranian agent, and his militia, the Mahdi Army, as an Iranian creation.The Sunnis are convinced that one day, given the opportunity, Sadr will hand Iraq over to Iran. For all the shock Iraq's Sunnis felt on hearing Sadr's name shouted at Saddam's execution, Iranian diplomats might as well have been in attendance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam's Shi'a Lynch Mob | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...scoffed. Regardless of the situation in Ramadi, casually suggesting Iraq as a whole was on the mend seemed an insult to both our intelligence, especially hers. She was a Naval Academy graduate who went on to pursue a master's in criminal justice at Boston University. Was she kidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Death Among 3,000 | 1/2/2007 | See Source »

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