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...Beirut airport is a favorite target of the Israelis: they struck it in 1996, 1993 and most famously in 1968, when Israeli commandos blew up 13 Middle East Airlines planes in retaliation for an attack in Athens by Palestinians. The airport, recently rebuilt during a Beirut reconstruction plan led by the late Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, is a lifeblood of Lebanon's postwar recovery. "Tourism in Lebanon is finished if this continues," Joseph Sarkis, Lebanon's Minister of Tourism...
...This new crime is a changing point in the rules of the battle. We will choose the rules of the game in the coming period. Our message to the Zionists is that your leaders are leading you to violence from which no one will be safe and when they target civilians they decided for you to be the target of our resistance...
...commuters pass every day. Typically, a Bombay train carries around 4,500 people - three times its official capacity - and at rush hour, each carriage would have been stuffed, with passengers hanging onto doors and sitting on roofs. For terrorists looking to maximize carnage, it was an all too tempting target...
...there was little a central bank could do to stoke an economy's fires once it had lowered rates to zero. But Fukui stepped up or initiated a series of unorthodox "quantitative easing" programs designed to flood the market with easy money. For example, he more than doubled the target for current-account deposits held by financial institutions and he ramped up the BOJ's purchases of corporate and government bonds. With increased deposits, banks had more money to put on the street; and the BOJ's shopping spree also put more money in circulation...
...witness?and possibly give embarrassing testimony about former Khmer Rouge members still in government?is acutely sensitive. Officials have also said that only a handful of the most senior Khmer Rouge leaders would stand trial. But under the tribunal's laws, says Petit, the prosecution has a mandate to target "senior leaders and those most responsible"?and he's putting the emphasis on those most responsible. "The idea of these tribunals is that ... if you do certain things you will be held accountable," he says. "It is making a statement about humanity, about who we are or maybe even...