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...Standard's own parent company, [an error occurred while processing this directive] Associated Newspapers. Launched last week with 400,000 copies daily, London Lite aims for young professionals seeking to ease commuter boredom, but not willing to shell out the U.S. 95? for the Standard. Handed out at transport hot spots around the city, the skinny read blends top headline coverage with entertainment news and reviews, gossip and sport. Concerns about cannibalizing the Standard aside, it's easy to understand Associated's gambit. While the circulation of national morning newspapers has dipped 2.3% since February, distribution of Metro, Associated...
...they're attacking us." That reality hit home again last month, when a video of Shehzad Tanweer, one of the four July 7 suicide bombers, was released on the eve of the bombings' one-year anniversary. In it, he promises that attacks like the one on London's public transport network that killed 52 would become stronger, his Yorkshire accent a bitter reminder that he and his cohorts were British citizens, three of them born here. Those who knew the July 7 bombers described them as "ordinary" guys who had never caused any trouble before...
...five men charged with planning the failed July 21 operation - where four small explosions shut down the London transport system - also lived and worked in Britain. "The enemy within is the most daunting, because you don't have people crossing borders, which would make them easier to detect, since they're already integrated and often in very tight communities" says Will Geddes, managing director of ICP Group, an international security consultancy. "The more extreme groups tend to isolate themselves. I hate to draw this analogy, but it's a bit like with pedophile rings. They remain in their own isolated...
...Sunni village of Jibbayn, panic-stricken residents beg the UNIFIL convoy for lifts to the comparative safety of Tyre, a coastal town that so far has remained relatively immune to the Israeli assault. But the UNIFIL peacekeepers are under orders not to transport civilians from the area, so the disappointed villagers, a few aged men and women, shoulder the brown cardboard boxes of food and stalk resignedly back to their homes. Israeli troops have deployed at the northern end of Jibbayn, cutting the road to Teir Harfa village to which the UNIFIL convoy was hoping to proceed. "The Israelis have...
...silent. The U.S. may be calculating that the Lebanese government's desperation to end the fighting that threatens to destroy the country will force it to accept Israeli forces' remaining in southern Lebanon, thereby isolating Hizballah. Israel has the country in an ever-tightening choke-hold, having cut transport links and leaving the county with less than a week's energy supplies to maintain electricity and essential services. The desperation of Lebanon's government is palpable, and Washington appears to be betting that this will drive a wedge between it and Hizballah...