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...central Beirut last week, honking their car horns and waving the militant Shi'ite Muslim group's yellow flag. The demonstration had a festive air, but it may have signaled the start of [an error occurred while processing this directive] something ominous: massive street protests threatened by Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah to bring down Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's Western-backed government. The government is already in crisis. Six pro-Syrian ministers quit last week after Siniora refused Hizballah's demand for a new government alloting the group and its allies one-third of the Cabinet posts, enough...
...have the perfect record for a party trying to ease voters' concerns about Washington corruption; in the 1980s, he was investigated but not charged in a corruption case where eight members of Congress, including Murtha, were offered money by FBI agents posing as a representatives of a fictitious Arab sheik; ultimately six House members and a Senator were convicted in the investigation...
...take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street or in the garden or in the park or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it, whose fault is it--the cats' or the uncovered meat?" SHEIK TAJ ALDIN AL HILALI, Muslim cleric in Australia, implying in a sermon that it would be the fault of an unveiled woman if she was raped because her lack of a covering would tempt...
Waddah also learned a little bit about the "emir," or leader of the criminal gang. The guards described him as a bold and brazen criminal who masterminded the kidnapping of many high-value targets: rich businessmen, government officials, even a tribal sheik. The gang leader had been a senior official in Saddam's dreaded intelligence service, the Mukhabarat. The emir was also an expert in torture, able to extract information from the most stubborn captives. But he rarely took part in the interrogations anymore; in fact, he only occasionally visited the house. While he concentrated on other, unspecified business interests...
...Later that day, I tried to go to the Green Zone to get my press credentials, but got stuck in a traffic jam caused by the U.S. snatch of Sheik Mazin al-Saedi - a top aide to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr detained on suspicion of involvement in sectarian killings by Shi'ite militia. Sitting in traffic in downtown Baghdad is far more nerve-wracking than rolling down even the most dangerous road in the area. You wonder if there are any car bombs amid the traffic around you as you eye the gridlock. You wonder...