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...Jersey TAKE THAT, TONY SOPRANO In a state long tainted by graft, New Jersey's latest scandal may top them all. After a 10-year probe reaching from Hoboken to Israel, federal agents slapped 44 people with criminal charges. The allegations read like a movie script: assemblymen and mayors took bribes in diners and parking lots; rabbis laundered millions through Jewish charities; a man tried to sell a kidney to an FBI informant. The fallout has been equally cinematic: the mayor of Secaucus resigned July 28, and the same day, another accused official was found dead in suspicious circumstances...
...Isfahan, according to IRNA, Iran's official news agency. In a vague and rambling indictment, the three were charged with espionage and "acting against the national security," and for inciting "riots." It went on to blame a litany of Western intelligence agencies, media organizations and software companies - including Israel's Mossad spy agency, Facebook, Twitter, the Voice of America, BBC Persia and even Google's new Persian-to-English translation software - for their roles in the supposedly vast conspiracy. (See pictures of protests against the Iranian regime around the world...
...value your scowling and bullying nor will they pay attention to your smiles and greetings." Ahmadinejad reasserted his hawkish foreign policy position but was otherwise relatively low-key, adding that he would "spare no effort to safeguard the frontiers of Iran." The remark was most likely a reference to Israel's threats to bomb Iran's uranium-enrichment facilities if the country does not halt its nuclear weapons program...
...Wednesday, Aug. 5, four more men were charged. At their hearing, one reportedly responded by saying, "You send troops to Iraq to kill innocent people ... You call me a terrorist. I never killed a person in my life. Your army kills innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel takes Palestinian land by force...
...looms large over the conference, and not only because the movement is blocking Fatah delegates in Gaza from traveling to Bethlehem until Abbas agrees to release some 1,000 Hamas prisoners being held in the West Bank. Hamas, quite simply, has eclipsed Fatah in leading the Palestinian fight against Israel. It directly controls Gaza, and only the ongoing suppression of free political activity in the West Bank prevents the Islamists from making a far stronger challenge to Abbas on his own turf. The steady stream of Western officials and journalists traveling to Damascus to meet with Hamas leaders...