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...without reason - that the highest ranks of government are infested with sleaze and corruption. Mazuz won respect for indicting ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's son for corruption in 2005, and for urging the resignation of Israel's Justice Minister in 2006 for forcefully kissing a young female soldier. Mazuz has also been investigating Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for allegedly suspect property deals; Olmert strenuously denies the allegations. Finance Minister Avraham Hirchson resigned on July 1 in the face of Mazuz's looming charges that he allegedly embezzled funds from a charity that sent kids on study tours of Holocaust...
...West Bank is shaky, Hamas can now rightly say that it is fully in control of Gaza. Freeing Johnston will help Hamas achieve a measure of international respectability, and, according to Palestinian analysts, the move may pave the way toward the release of another Gaza hostage, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped a year ago by several militants, including members of the Army of Islam. Hamas claims it is also trying to persuade smaller militant outfits in Gaza to cease firing rockets into Israel...
...positive legacy for us both," President Bush told a British newspaper. The President also confessed he'd tried to persuade Blair to stay until his White House term expired. Peter Brierley, waiting in Downing Street to witness Blair's departure, was sad to see him go too. Brierley's soldier son was killed in Iraq in 2003. "I wanted Blair to stay until we got him into court," said Brierley, cradling a picture of his smooth-faced...
...Iraqi men squatting shoulder to shoulder in the blasted, abandoned classroom couldn't tell at first that the American soldier addressing them was a man of real authority. He was slight, taut, with sandy hair and a thin beak of a nose. He didn't sound like a big shot; he didn't bark in a commanding voice. "How many of you are going to make it?" he asked, in sketchy Arabic. Several of the men - Iraqi police recruits - looked up, saw the four stars on General David Petraeus' cap and shifted nervously, unsure of what he meant. His interpreter...
...Shalit's captors want the Israeli government to exchange hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for the Israeli soldier. On Monday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he would release 250 prisoners from the Fatah group - but none from Hamas...