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...Secretary of State eschewed terms such as "breakthrough," warning that the test of the deal lay in its implementation. She has asked Wolfensohn to monitor progress and report to her every two weeks, vowing to return if necessary. "I think there's a chance," she said cautiously, "that if we can get through what were issues about how Gaza is going to operate, perhaps we can return to the bigger issues...
...covert operative. Roughly 90 minutes later, al-Jamadi was dead. One of the MPs who unshackled al-Jamadi's body from the window testified that blood gushed from his mouth and nose like "a faucet had turned on," flowing onto the floor where his hood now lay. The autopsy ruled that al-Jamadi's death was brought on by "blunt-force injuries" and "asphyxiation." Cyril Wecht, coroner of Allegheny County, Pa., and past president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, examined the autopsy report and other records of the investigations and says, "The most likely cause of death...
...collected 16 points on 7-of-10 shooting despite only playing 13 minutes off the bench. Pusar, a wing player who likes to put the ball on the floor and drive, displayed an uncanny ability to get to the basket and be in the right place for put-back lay-ups. “We looked at ourselves and said, ‘How did he get that many points?’” Sullivan said. “He’s a junkyard player—is his jump shot pretty? No. Is his free throw...
...people waited to greet them. Mingling among the guests was a man who witnesses later said was in his 20s. A few minutes before 9 p.m., he detonated a suicide belt hidden under a jacket, turning the celebration into a scene of carnage. In the chaos, Daas's father lay motionless, bleeding from his mouth. His son tried to resuscitate him to no avail. The next day many of the wedding guests attended the funeral for Daas's father, held at a cemetery 20 minutes from the Radisson. Nadia's father was buried Saturday...
France always thought it had one last resort, one ready strategy for fending off the rage of its Arab street: beyond avoidance lay appeasement. No country in the West has done more to cultivate world Arab opinion, to appease Arab terrorists, to ostentatiously oppose American Middle East policy (Iraq above all), to champion the signal Arab cause of Palestine. It was no accident that Yasser Arafat chose Paris as his place to die--Paris, after Jerusalem, his second holiest city...