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...ignored. He was angered again during the formation of the interim government last spring, when his demand for control of two ministries was rebuffed. After his newspaper was shut down in late March and the Coalition Provisional Authority revealed that a warrant had been issued for his arrest on murder charges, he sent his fighters into the streets of Najaf and Sadr City for two months. He eventually accepted a favorable truce in June that relegated U.S. forces to bases outside the city and did nothing to rid the place of anti-American rebels. U.S. military commanders complained that...
...many murder mysteries, the killing of the Russian oil giant Yukos - which began last fall with the arrest of its CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and could climax at any time with the firm's bankruptcy or forced sale of assets - is being committed in public but was plotted in private. The hammer blows that are bringing down the firm have been delivered in plain sight: Khodorkovsky's ongoing trial for alleged fraud, tax evasion and embezzlement; the Russian government's demand for up to $6.8 billion in alleged unpaid corporate taxes; its simultaneous freezing of company assets, which makes that...
...willing to take a low-paying job that could lead to a terrible death." This is an injustice to the Ethiopian Jewish community. They are a very proud and modest group of people who underwent unspeakable hardships before emigrating to Israel; their families and friends suffered humiliation, rape and murder. Assimilation into Israeli society has been nearly impossible for the first generation, but those who arrived in Israel as children and, of course, those who have been born here are becoming increasingly involved in mainstream Israeli life. Still, the situation in Israel remains intolerable and unsolvable. Rees' article captured...
...cannot understand how Iraqi men can so blatantly mistreat their women and feel no remorse or shame. How can they kill their mothers, sisters, wives and girlfriends with such ferocity? Do they not understand that for their country to have a future, men and women need to work together? Murder is wrong, regardless of what a woman has done. SHIRLEY JONES-LUKE Boston...
ARRESTED. MARK HACKING, 28, husband of missing brokerage assistant Lori Hacking; on one count of aggravated murder; in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hacking claimed his wife had disappeared after going out for a run. After his arrest, his brother Scott told the Salt Lake Tribune that Mark had confessed the murder to him late last month...