Word: messieres
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...bigger crisis. "We've dealt with governments allied to our enemies many times in the past," he says. "The rub, however, is, Could it affect [counterinsurgency efforts]? To that I say, 'It hasn't happened yet, but it could.'" The war in Iraq could get a whole lot messier if it does...
...battlefield? Might the U.S. face an unhappy choice: accepting defeat and humiliation by proxy, or having to come to the rescue of its proxies with its own troops? Then the U.S. could find itself bogged down in a messy war and torn apart in an even messier domestic debate...
...contrast to the colorless apparatchiks who had given up power just a few months before. It was no fluke that Niezabitowska became the face of Poland's Third Republic: she symbolized a clean break with the country's communist past. Or did she? Today, that break looks a lot messier. Niezabitowska, 56, is one of tens of thousands of Poles who, in the past few months, have been accused of collaborating with the communist secret police (SB) in the 1980s. The accused include top politicians like Jozef Oleksy, who resigned from the post of parliament speaker after being found guilty...
...prefers an orderly Syrian withdrawal that would give international and Lebanese forces time to fill the security void. But the emotions stirred up by Hariri's death have raised the prospect of a far messier outcome. Many Lebanese believe the killing was an attempt by Damascus to halt the snowballing challenge to its hegemony. Hariri's death has galvanized the anti-Syria opposition. "There has been a real and dramatic change," says former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel. In Damascus, Syrian citizens wondered whether Lebanese rage over Hariri's death might provoke insurgent attacks against Syrian troops, which could reignite Lebanon...
...follow-up demand for a formal investigation of the cob's president and general manager, both of whom are still in office. The cob, since renamed the Financial Market Authority, didn't respond to requests for comment. Vivendi's accounting is just as controversial. The magistrates' investigation asserts that Messier gave an overly rosy picture of the group's finances by including the profits and healthy cash flow of two telephone companies - Cegetel and Maroc Telecom - that it didn't fully control. Messier says the board, Vivendi's auditors and regulators all signed off on the accounts. And the company...