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...forward to the open house and a chance to see his mother and 2-year-old daughter, who are planning to travel 200 miles from their home in Roswell (many of the parents live equally long distances from the school). When he was 17, at the time already a low-level drug dealer for five years, Chavarria shot and wounded a man approaching his car as he was sitting in traffic. Two weeks later, before being apprehended, he shot and killed a woman whom he and his friends feared were going to rat them out to the police. When...
...first, he was puzzled by the fact that he seemed to find out more about his son's murder than the police had. Then he learned the reason: The UVF boss who allegedly ordered the killing was a police agent. Mark Haddock was a low-level informer when he first alleged to have killed in 1993 by shooting a Catholic woman while she cooked dinner for a sick Protestant friend. Despite having allegedly told police about the killing, he was kept on as an informer and his payments continued to increase...
...Washash have become the main battlegrounds of sectarian warfare. The slum is a maze of tumbledown buildings and is home to 40,000 people - during Saddam's time, roughly divided between Sunnis and Shi'ites. As TIME's Tim McGirk reported on a visit to Washash in August 2005, low-level sectarian murders began more than a year ago. When U.S. soldiers moved into the neighborhood about a month ago to quell the bloodshed, Shi'ites and Sunnis appeared to be targeting one another unpredictably. But as U.S. soldiers learned more about the most recent killings, a pattern emerged...
...even blame your higher brain for such bias. The impulse seems to arise in the primitive amygdala. If your prefrontal cortex is your summa cum laude lobe, the amygdala is Barney Rubble. Says Todorov: "This is a case of a high-level judgment being made by a low-level brain structure...
...French are incredulous at the prospect of Doha going free. "How can you have Abu Zubaydah, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and who knows how many low-level fighters in secret camps and let someone of Abu Doha's stature free by deporting him?" the French counter-terrorism official asks. "It's incomprehensible that someone with his profile will be deported to freedom and allowed to resume his activities...