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There are two ways to look at today's assassination of Hizballah's most notorious terrorist, Imad Fa'iz Mughniyah. In this country it will be one of rendering justice, one less terrorist, a turn on the war in terror...
...early '90s, he was Hizballah Secretary General's Hasan Nasrallah's primary Iranian contact, and certainly in a position now to provide evidence of Nasrallah's involvement in terrorism. Asgari was the primary Iranian contact for one of the world's most lethal and capable terrorists, 'Imad Fa'iz Mughniyah. Mughniyah is indicted in the U.S. for the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the murder of a Navy diver...
...people who brought you the weird music alien iZ have come out with another equally alien device, called Zoundz. It looks like the sort of leisure device Captain Kirk might encounter in a martian boudoir, a shiny white puddle with colorful, crazy-shaped blocks and blinking lights. You move the blocks to create and manipulate the music, and the lights lock in step. Six of the blocks have sound sequences built in?string, keyboard, percussion, etc. The seventh block is for recording your own five seconds of audio. By moving the music blocks around on the three light patches...
...result of more Iraqi ministries, officials and Army brigades taking over territory in the IZ, many U.S. officials in Baghdad say they?re retreating even further into their bunker. Embassy spokeswoman Elizabeth Colton disagrees, saying staff are actually moving more and more around the IZ these days, going to restaurants, having coffee in the lobby of the al-Rasheed Hotel. Nonetheless, posted security notices outside embassy offices declare in capital red letters a list of public restaurants within the secured IZ that are off limits for security reasons. And conversations with several embassy staffers who aren?t comfortable venturing into...
...entire International Zone (IZ), as the walled city is officially known, is still the ultimate responsibility of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, and no entrance is controlled by Iraqi forces alone. But Iraqi soldiers are the first line of defense for more and more of its acreage. The Amber Zone?s vague border begins in the westernmost tip of the Green Zone, where the Iraqi Ministry of Interior has taken over a complex. It then sweeps north and east, including the reopened al-Rasheed Hotel and the Convention Center where the Iraqi parliament meets, and past a warren...