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...Navy League. "The alternative - forced boarding - would almost certainly lead to confrontation; possible loss of life; possible retaliation; and a high degree of likelihood that the North Koreans could sucker us into a confrontation over a load of Kewpie dolls or something equally nonthreatening." (See pictures of the suspected Syrian nuclear reactor allegedly built with the help of North Korea...
...more apprehensive about Lebanon's future, perhaps because I'd been covering not just the anti-Syrian Cedar Revolution demonstrations, but also ones organized by Hizballah, which viewed the effort to push Syria out of Lebanon as a rearguard attack against the anti-Israeli resistance. It seemed to me that leaving Hizballah, Lebanon's largest political party and its only armed militia, out of calculations for the future was unwise. "Do you ever have any contact with Hizballah these days?" I asked the official. Not only is it illegal for U.S. government officials to have dealings with terrorist organizations...
...seats in the Axis of Evil clubhouse, but they're hardly on friendly terms on the football pitch. In 2005, the last time the Iranians played a competitive match in the North Korean capital, the game turned sour. Slipping to defeat, North Korean players vented their frustrations on the Syrian referee, pushing the official to the ground. Irate fans hurled missiles - plastic bottles, mostly - at the Iranian team. The scenes then were broadcast via satellite around the world, giving watchers of the isolated communist state a strange, unprecedented glimpse of what civil disturbance could look like in the hermit kingdom...
...Italian and French officials now say they believe the pair had been trying to furtively return to Europe from Syria, where they had picked up the five Palestinian and Syrian illegals as volunteers for their suspected planned attacks. "We know what kinds of activities [Ayachi and Gendron] had been up to after watching them for months, and they'd never run illegal aliens into Europe before," says a French counter-terrorism official. "You can be pretty sure if they were arrested by the Italians bringing five illegals in when they did, it wasn't to organize a little round...
...members - known to have been in Afghanistan or to be en route back to Europe - to go to ground once word of the bust got to them. "They're still out there, and we have no idea if they were involved in the recruitment of the five [Palestinian and Syrian] suspected suicide bombers - or whether those kamikazes might have been trained and recruited out of Afghanistan," the French official says...