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...commander of the military wing of Hamas, he is suspected by Israel of involvement in suicide bombings. He is said to have been seriously wounded by an Israeli airstrike in July...
...became a respected--if left-leaning--voice on the committee. Dick Cheney, who as Defense Secretary worked with Dellums, called him a "straight shooter" who was worthy of trust. The same issues popped up when Dellums later won a seat on the Intelligence Committee. That time it was right-wing warrior Newt Gingrich, who was in Congress at the same time, pointing out that Dellums had been handling secrets for years on the Armed Services Committee...
...what took black Americans more than a century, gays have accomplished in two or three decades (thanks in no small part to blacks, who designed the template for this kind of social revolution). We still argue about it, but the whole spectrum of debate has moved left. A right-wing thug like Tom DeLay or Newt Gingrich probably has more advanced views about homosexuals than dainty liberals of the past century like Adlai Stevenson or Hubert Humphrey. And whatever the actual views, public expressions of overt homophobia are now unacceptable from any national politician...
...known to Iraqis as Operation Fard al-Qanoon, or Imposing Law, has elicited opposite responses from Iraq's two warring sects. Shi'ite militias like the Mahdi Army have decided to lie low; their leaders went underground or on vacation to Iran. Sunni groups, especially al-Qaeda's Iraqi wing, have girded for battle. Groups associated with the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella organization controlled by al-Qaeda, began to confer with one another and with other Sunni groups. "The first thing we realized is that we would need lots of IEDs and car bombs," says al-Nasr Salahdin...
...largest airports in the world, runs on the equivalent processing power of 500 Xboxes and does everything the same model aircraft would do. Being able to safely navigate through low visibility and a ceiling of 800 ft. or to land smoothly after a fire in the left wing's engine prepares pilots for their first experience piloting an actual aircraft, which could be loaded with passengers...