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...found us in the village and ordered us back to the speedboat. We were dropped at a shining white beach. Casta?o was waiting for us under a giant tree, his armed guards fanned out across the fields in a wide circle. He explained that in the night raid against the leftist ELN (National Liberation Army) rebels, his men had suffered casualties. He thought Colombia needed a strongman, the iron rule of law. His country had been at war against the Marxists for over 40 years, and someone had to finish them off, without being squeamish. In other words, exterminate...
...will almost certainly release more than 30 parliamentarians belonging to the Hamas-led government, who were arrested after Shalit's capture, presumably to be used as bargaining chips. A cell of the military wing of Hamas, along with other Palestinian militant groups, is thought to have carried out the raid on an Israeli army post near Gaza in which Shalit was captured. The Israelis are also holding thousands of Palestinians for alleged terrorist crimes, and some of these may also be thrown into the swap...
...Israelis have only 23 Lebanese prisoners to trade, most of them seized in last month's fighting. So far, The ICRC has received no response from Israeli authorities on its demands for access to alleged Hizballah prisoners. To strengthen their bargaining hand, the Israelis carried out a commando raid in Baalbek valley, seizing five members of the Nasrallah family - assuming they belonged to the same family as Hizballah chief Hasan Nasrallah. But when they learned that the captive Nasrallahs were not related to the Hizballah leader - one was a greengrocer, another a plasterer - the Israelis sent them back to Lebanon...
...friends lit a cigarette and was informed by the embarrassed owner that smoking is now illegal for women in cafés. Such small but significant restrictions are a discouragement. Half the women I know don't go out for coffee anymore. So without a single police raid, the authorities have stifled Tehran's bustling café scene...
...Elsewhere in Gaza, two Reuters television journalists were wounded on Sunday when an Israeli missile struck their armored car. The reporters' car was clearly marked "TV" and the crew were filming the destruction of an Israeli air raid when the missile struck. The Israeli military said the journalists' vehicle was acting suspiciously, a claim that the Foreign Press Association in Tel Aviv dismissed as "outrageous...