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Under the Taliban, officials from the Department for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue struck fear into women's hearts, beating those who let a glimpse of wrist or ankle peek out from beneath their burqas. The hated religious police were disbanded when the hard-line Islamic regime fell in 2001. But President Hamid Karzai is planning to resurrect them, much to the alarm of human rights groups, parliamentarians and Western diplomats...
...Zikehammede, 70, had been killed in an Israeli missile strike yesterday on their way south to fetch Hussein's wife and six children and bring them to safety. According to Hussein's cousin, Majid Hammadi, the two men were about a mile from their house when an Israeli missile struck their car, killing both. When a rescue truck attempted to retrieve the bodies, Hammadi said, the Israelis struck again. Today, they say, after a day in the street, the bodies are still unclaimed because people are too scared to approach the destroyed cars. Neighbors who witnessed the attack had called...
...That the BETonSPORTS case is just the opening salvo in a much bigger anti-online gambling campaign is one thing everyone agrees on. And it's a campaign that seems to many to be as much political as legal. The timing of the arrest and announcement even struck some skeptical industry observers as curious...
...Sunday the war came to Tyre; most of the city's population, upon hearing the news that Hizballah rockets had struck the Israeli port city of Haifa, 18 miles south of the border, sought refuge in the basements of apartment blocks. "It was terrifying," says Mohammed Awayni, 23. "We spent all day in the basement. We could hear the explosions shaking the buildings...
...raids struck targets on the edges of the city around the Palestinian refugee camps of Bourj Shemali and Al-Bass. But one missile plowed into a 12-story apartment block housing the offices of the Lebanese civil defense, killing 20 people. Monday night, the city reverberated to the boom of air strikes every few minutes while Israeli helicopter gunships clattered off the coast and reconnaissance drones whined overhead...