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...commanders of Lebanon's security and intelligence services, four generals were once among the most powerful and feared officials in the country. But last week, they languished in underground Beirut cells after Lebanese judicial authorities formally charged them with involvement in last February's assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Lebanese police arrested all four suspects - Jamil Sayyed, Raymond Azar, Ali Hajj and Mustafa Hamdan - as part of a United Nations?led investigation headed by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis. If top Lebanese officials and their backers in Syria had hoped to evade Mehlis' probe, they've since been surprised...
...Meanwhile, the war in Chechnya drags on, promising more horrors to come. Last week, a new underground government was announced with Basayev, widely believed to have planned Beslan, named first deputy premier. Asked recently if there could be more Beslan-style attacks, Basayev answered: "Of course...
...Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian killed by police when he was mistaken for a suspected suicide bomber the day after the failed July 21 terror attacks. In line with a shoot-to-kill policy put in place after Sept. 11, Menezes was shot eight times after boarding a London Underground train. Eyewitnesses said Menezes wore a heavy jacket, and that he vaulted over the ticket barrier. These observations seemed to tally with the limited information provided by police, who said that Menezes' clothes and behavior at the station had added to their suspicions. But in documents leaked from an ongoing...
...with the self-esteem of an earthworm. So every few years, I'd bemoan the state of the music, rip my Public Enemy posters from the wall, unspool all my mix tapes and swear, "Never again!" That was mostly posturing--all it took was something arch and underground, say, Operation Lockdown by Heltah Skeltah, to get me swooning...
...apparently had intended to inflict carnage on a comparable scale--provided a measure of relief to a jittery city. In Birmingham, in the center of England, police snared Yasin Hassan Omar, allegedly the man shown on closed-circuit-television tapes who was planning to bomb the Warren Street underground station. The Peabody bust netted Ibrahim Muktar Said, suspected of trying to bomb a bus in east London, and Ramzi Mohammed, who fled from the Oval station after allegedly leaving a bomb. And in Italy, authorities announced they had caught Osman Hussain (also referred to as Hussain Osman by British police...