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...Hariri, a former Lebanese Prime Minister who opposed Syrian dominance of Lebanon, was killed in a massive truck bomb blast in February 2005. His death, which many Lebanese blamed on Syria, sparked protests that compelled Damascus to withdraw its troops from Lebanon two months later. Since then, Syria's critics in Lebanon accuse Damascus of seeking to reimpose its hegemony over Lebanon through assassinations and intimidation. Syria denies any involvement in Hariri's death and the subsequent assassinations...
...latest cycle of conflict over Gaza casts a dark shadow over President Bush's efforts to broker a Middle East peace. Palestinian anger over the plight of Gaza forced President Mahmoud Abbas to threaten to withdraw from U.S.-sponsored peace talks with Israel. Abbas later said he'd stick it out, although Palestinian officials in Ramallah tell TIME that the Palestinian President is becoming increasingly isolated among his people, and even inside his own Fatah movement. Says Salah Bardoweel, a Hamas legislator, "This new round of attacks by Israel creates a belief that there is a security coordination between Ramallah...
...economics. “She said she didn’t think the Iraq war was a good idea and that it’d be a good idea if it ended but she didn’t talk at all about the specifics about how you might withdraw troops without causing more problems than there are already...
...anti-corruption commissions," says Joel Barkan, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington who was in Kenya for the vote. "They have been singularly ineffective." In Kenya the IMF and the World Bank suspended aid in 2006 but later resumed it. Threats to withdraw U.S. and other aid appear to have persuaded Kibaki to offer to share power with Odinga...
...look at what happened to [New York Senator Hillary Clinton] when she... tried to address the issue of [New York Governor Eliot] Spitzer's trying to give illegal immigrants drivers licenses and it cost her severely. It cost her in the polls and it cost him: he had to withdraw the proposal. And none of these things would've ever have happened six months ago. Now is it just because of Tom Tancredo? No, but it's because I really was given a megaphone by being on the stage at that level and what you do is you energize...