Word: probed
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...former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Lebanese police arrested all four suspects - Jamil Sayyed, Raymond Azar, Ali Hajj and Mustafa Hamdan - as part of a United Nations?led investigation headed by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis. If top Lebanese officials and their backers in Syria had hoped to evade Mehlis' probe, they've since been surprised by the tenacity of a man whom a former colleague compares to a "terrier that doesn't let go once it has sunk his teeth into something." Speaking to reporters, Mehlis, best known for obtaining a difficult conviction of four people involved in the 1986 bombing...
...gang stashed its stolen files in zombie servers in South Korea, for example, before sending them back to Guangdong. In one, Carpenter found a stockpile of aerospace documents with hundreds of detailed schematics about propulsion systems, solar paneling and fuel tanks for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the NASA probe launched in August. On the night he woke at 2, Carpenter copied a huge collection of files that had been stolen from Redstone Arsenal, home to the Army Aviation and Missile Command. The attackers had grabbed specs for the aviation-mission-planning system for Army helicopters, as well as Falconview...
...more remarkable is that the image that changed Fackelmann's future was generated without any kind of surgery. For years, the gold standard for discovering the location of blockages in a patient's coronary arteries has been a procedure called a cardiac catheterization, in which a specialist inserts a probe through an incision into a blood vessel in the groin, then snakes it up toward the heart, where an opaque dye is released...
...sharing almost no reliable information with the public. And Venezuela's anti-U.S. stance is keeping investigators for the plane manufacturer from looking into why the West Caribbean McDonnell Douglas MD-82 went down en route from Panama to Martinique. Cuban officials have been asked to join the probe instead, but aviation experts say full information sharing is necessary to ensure global air safety...
...charges filed by the Columbus City Prosecutor's Office stem from a widening corruption scandal that since June has forced the resignation of the head of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation and the conviction of Taft's former chief of staff on ethics charges, amidst an ongoing criminal probe of deep-pocketed GOP donor Tom Noe, a rare coin dealer and long time political ally of Taft's. The Ohio Attorney General says Noe stole as much as $4 million from state investment he was managing, and even Noe's lawyers concede that $13 million is missing from the fund...