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...alcohol and the isolation of their economy. "Lebanese Shi'ites are a joyful people," says Hussein, 40, a shopkeeper. "We don't mind Hizballah fighting Israel, but they're not fighting Israel from Baalbek. Whenever there is an Israeli attack anywhere in Lebanon, they turn on the air-raid siren. It's a good way to politicize people. But if they hear people are dancing in the park at Ras-el-Ain, they also turn on the air-raid siren...
...anyone involved in a deal fails to call in, or catches a whiff of the law, the cell is shut down. Last July, in a raid on a Leto Lopez front business in Queens, agents found a list of Calenos who had rented apartments around Manhattan. By the time agents reached the addresses, everyone was gone, leaving behind cocaine, ledgers, more than $1.5 million in cash, and two steamer trunks full of arms. "Whenever we get close to these people," says U.S. District Attorney Andrew Maloney, "they're on a plane back to Colombia, and we have to start...
Foreign governments have been moving even more vigorously against the organization. In Canada the church and nine of its members will be tried in June on charges of stealing government documents (many of them retrieved in an enormous police raid of the church's Toronto headquarters). Scientology proposed to give $1 million to the needy if the case was dropped, but Canada spurned the offer. Since 1986 authorities in France, Spain and Italy have raided more than 50 Scientology centers. Pending charges against more than 100 of its overseas church members include fraud, extortion, capital flight, coercion, illegally practicing medicine...
...orchestrated George Bush's daring behind-enemy-lines raid on Boston Harbor during the 1988 campaign. Later that year, he struck again, winning from several Massachusetts' police groups endorsements of Bush instead of the state's Governor, Michael Dukakis. At the time, he described himself as a practitioner of "psychological terror" and "disinformation...
...classified intelligence reports for the month preceding the invasion of Kuwait say they provided precise details of Iraqi troop movements, logistics and air activity. But for most of that crucial period the reports remained vague on a fundamental question: Was Saddam bluffing the Kuwaitis, planning a short cross-border raid, or about to swallow the country whole? One explanation: intelligence assessments tend to be cautious and shy away from firm predictions. But there were other reasons why the Administration was so slow to come to terms with threats from Saddam. Policymakers who had spent years offering sanguine assessments...