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...prevented from interrogating up to 15 senior Syrian officials. On Saturday, a Syrian official said that Damascus was ready to receive Mehlis, although a date has yet to be set. But even with such promises, Lebanese critics of Syria said they feared being targeted by pro-Syrian death squads intent on avenging the cedar revolution protests last spring that prompted Syrian forces to end their 29-year domination of Lebanon. Ghattas Khoury, a defiant Hariri ally, told TIME that Lebanon's future depends on standing up to Hariri's killers. "Unless we reach the truth, there will be no stability...
...March 2005, his FBI handlers stopped communicating with him altogether. Now the federal law-enforcement source tells TIME that the bureau was actually investigating Carpenter while it was working with him. Agents are supposed to check out their informants, and intruding into foreign computers is illegal, regardless of intent. But two sources familiar with Carpenter's story say there is a gray area in cybersecurity, and Carpenter apparently felt he had been unofficially encouraged by the military and, at least initially, by the FBI. Although the U.S. Attorney declined to pursue charges against him, Carpenter feels betrayed. "It's just...
...which is dominated by an assortment of far-right settlers from the West Bank, messianic rabbis, religious extremists and restless teenagers--has virtually hijacked the disengagement issue from the Gaza residents, who voice their dissent in acts of denial. Whether they succeed in disrupting the evacuation, the protesters are intent on turning it into a test of Israel's very identity. In this showdown, Sharon's detractors--including former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who resigned from the Cabinet last week to side with the opposition--claim the higher power of divine right is on their side: the land God gave...
Harper, who resigned from the Harvard Corporation last month amid bitter disagreements with his fellow trustees, was the only African American ever to serve on the seven-member board since its inception in 1650. Those close to the search said the University was intent on selecting a black alum to replace...
...Honor denied the quasher on the grounds that the statute under which it was brought was wholly institutional, technically and by construction and intent. Defense demurred...