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...Well it's your bone, it's alive and has nerves. Ever get kicked in the shin...
...Plenty of foreign firms have learned that the hard way. One of their main concerns is government meddling?a practice that Carl Thayer, a political professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy, calls "kicking the foreigner in the shin and demanding compensation." In a recent instance, Dutch bank ABN AMRO was accused by authorities of illegal foreign-exchange trades with state-owned Incombank, costing the latter $5.4 million. The Vietnamese bank is demanding that ABN AMRO repay the losses?even though they were incurred by an Incombank employee. ABN AMRO says it has done nothing wrong. Incombank won't comment...
...international jihadists, whose anti-American agendas might increasingly shape Hamas's own. Israeli officials say Iran recently offered to train Hamas in the weapons and tactics used to such lethal effect by the Hizballah fighters who held their own against Israeli forces in Lebanon over the summer. Israel's Shin Bet security service also claims that Hamas had smuggled over 19 tons of explosives into Gaza...
...recently as February 2005 Thaksin won a landslide re-election victory. But he was forced to dissolve parliament only a year later following mass demonstrations in Bangkok calling for him to step down, triggered by the controversial sale of his family company Shin Corp. to a group led by Singapore's Temasek Holdings. Since then, Thai politics have descended into high farce, culminating in an April snap election boycotted by the opposition and later invalidated by the courts. The election commissioners who oversaw this debacle refused to resign until they were briefly thrown in jail. A fresh ballot has been...
...Olmert has chosen Ofer Deker, an Arabic-speaking former deputy head of Shin Beit, the Israeli equivalent of the FBI, to handle the discreet bargaining. Israel is also contacting all possible mediators, including the United Nations, Egypt, France, Germany and Qatar - anyone who is willing and able to open up lines of communication with the two groups behind the kidnapping. Israeli and Arab newspapers are full of often contradictory reports about possible terms for the hostages' release. The latest, as yet unconfirmed, claims that Gilad Shalit, the 18-year-old soldier seized by Palestinian militants, will soon be freed through...