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...official song for the Cricket World Cup currently under way in the Caribbean is titled "The Game of Love and Unity." But with Thursday's announcement that Jamaican police are now treating the death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer as a murder case, the kitschy marketing jingle has taken on a note of brutal irony. How could the noble, gentle game of cricket lead to murder? Who would want to kill a coach respected and adored by players and fans from Cape Town to Karachi? What happened to all that love and unity...
...suspicion of match-fixing fuels some of the speculation surrounding Woolmer's murder: that the former England player was killed to prevent him blowing the lid on the game's continuing cancer. Pakistan has certainly been linked to match-fixing scandals in the past. Outspoken Pakistani batsman Qasim Omar has long maintained that he was bribed to deliberately get himself out during the 1983-84 Pakistan-Australia series. A decade later, three Australian players publicly alleged that Salim Malik of Pakistan had offered them money to lose a match. Malik denied the allegation. Then, in 2000, police in the Indian...
...died in a small plane crash in South Africa in 2002, some people saw the hand of South Asian organized crime at work. Former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz alleged to reporters earlier this week that one of South Asia's bookmaking mafia rings is probably behind Woolmer's murder. Sarfraz claims bookies were manipulating results, and that five members of the Pakistani squad were involved. The team's spokesman, Pervez Mir, angrily dismissed Sarfraz's allegations, telling a Pakistani paper, "There is no match-fixing going on within this team, there is no indication of that...
Trying to make sense of both this consensus and his possible future, an ROTC cadet notes, "Some people say, 'Thou shalt not kill' is really 'Thou shalt not murder,' and in Ecclesiastes it says, 'There's a time for war and a time for peace...
...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...