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Although our vices and virtues seem to be independent of religion, there is no dividing Americana from religion. The two are interwoven. Removing the churches from the Boston skyline would be equivalent to creating a New York without skyscrapers. Forgetting Southern gospel songs would be as much a blow to our culture as if we turned our back on jazz and rock ’n’ roll. Cherishing our freedom to hold any or no religion is as important as practicing our freedom of speech. Our history with religion might be filled with bumps and wrong turns...
...Lebanon; a U.N. investigative report has cited senior officials close to Syrian President Bashar Assad for complicity in the 2005 killing. The government said suspects arrested in the February bus bombings confessed to being Fatah al-Islam members working for Syria, with apparent orders to attack U.N. forces in southern Lebanon and target 36 Lebanese for assassination. Syrian officials angrily rejected the accusations, saying that the group was affiliated to al-Qaeda and that al-Absi spent three years in a Syrian prison on terrorism charges...
...That warning even applies to Hamas's most senior official, Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. After a barrage of Palestinian missiles flew out of Gaza into southern Israel during the past week, the Israelis were in no mood to go lightly on Hamas. On Monday, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh declared in an interview that "no one" in Hamas's leadership was "immune from a strike." Hamas took the threat to heart. Spokesman Ayman Taha also urged militants to stop using cars and gathering in open places where they could be spotted by Israeli aircraft circling over the Gaza strip...
...familiar trap. Once again, their mutual loathing of Israel has helped warring Palestinian militias overcome their fratricidal tendencies. When the Fatah-Hamas power struggle turns into a shooting war, the most effective way of getting a cease-fire appears to be firing a few dozen badly aimed rockets into southern Israel and then waiting for the Israelis to intervene - which the Israelis invariably do. And when under fire from the Israelis, the Palestinian militants tend to stop killing each other, as happened last Sunday...
...bonds, police often use these connections to help solve cases. "Now there are more random acts of violence and we have less and less avenues to turn to," says Byrd. Body farms cannot be set up to mimic every kind of environment, of course, but already they have given southern criminologists vital research - for example, bodies decompose in Florida in three days, compared with 30 days in the mountains of Tennessee...