It's hardly surprising that Moti Malamud, every inch the moshavnik with his close-cropped hair, Levi workshirt, blue jeans and trainers, has never doubted that he will be voting Kadima in Israel's general election on Tuesday. For Ariel Sharon, the man who founded the party five months ago, has been part of his life for more than 70 years. Born in the same year, they attended the same local school; they worked the fields together as children; they were in the same Haganah unit carrying out daring guerrilla operations in the Forties; they were on the same battlefield at Latrun in 1948 when "he was wounded and I, thank God, was OK".Mr Sharon stayed in the army, of course, before he eventually went on to become Prime Minister. Mr Malamud came back to the moshav (a community where the land is farmed in individually owned plots rather than collectively, as in a kibbutz). ...
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 US troops clash with Shi'ite militia in Baghdad |
U.S. troops mounted two raids against Iraqi Shi'ite forces in Baghdad on Sunday, killing up to 20 gunmen in a raid on a radical mosque, and arresting more than 40 Interior Ministry personnel guarding a secret prison. Details were sketchy but the two operations looked like U.S. strikes against sectarian Shi'ite militias of the kind the U.S. ambassador said on Saturday must be eliminated if Iraq is to form a unity government and halt a slide toward civil war. The U.S. military made no immediate official comment and a senior Interior Ministry official denied the arrests of its personnel at a facility in central Baghdad where government and political sources said U.S. troops freed 17 foreign prisoners. ...
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| NYC 'Mafia Cops' Trial, Heading Into Its Third Week, Has Featured Plenty of Theatrics |
Louie Eppolito had a story to tell. And, more importantly, one to sell. The decorated ex-New York police detective, who also happened to be the son of a mobster, was living in Las Vegas and trying to peddle doomed screenplays with titles like "Murder In Youngstown." Eppolito was looking for an investor in his latest project and he was unconcerned about the source of the cash. "If you said to me, `Lou, I wanna introduce you to Jack Smith, he wants to invest in this film,' (and) he says, `$75,000 comes in a (expletive) shoe box,' that's fine with me," Eppolito said during a surreptitiously taped conversation with a federal informant. "I don't care. I've had people give me money before." It sounds like movie dialogue, maybe something out of "Get Shorty." No surprise the trial of so-called "Mafia Cops" Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, heading into its third week, has featured plenty of theatrics. ...
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| Israel 'to consult US on borders' |
Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he will seek backing from the US and international community for his plans to create permanent borders. Speaking two days before the elections, he said Israelis must first agree among themselves where the border should lie. Mr Olmert's campaign has centred on his plan to establish permanent borders. He has in the past suggested making the controversial West Bank barrier - some of which is being built in occupied Palestinian territory - the border. But it is hard to see Israel winning broad international support for borders that follow the current route of the barrier, the BBC's Caroline Hawley in Jerusalem says. Israel says the barrier is crucial for obstructing suicide bombers from the West Bank, while Palestinians claim it is a tool to grab land. ...
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| The US military deny accusations of massive over-reaction when attacked. But video evidence from one incident has led the official story to unravel |
US military investigators are examining allegations that Marines shot unarmed Iraqis, then claimed they were "enemy fighters", The Independent on Sunday has learned. In the same incident, eyewitnesses say, one man bled to death over a period of hours as soldiers ignored his pleas for help. American military officials in Iraq have already admitted that 15 civilians who died in the incident in the western town of Haditha last November were killed by Marines, and not by a roadside bomb, as had previously been claimed. The only victim of the remotely triggered bomb, it is now conceded, was a 20-year-old Marine, Lance-Corporal Miguel Terrazas, from El Paso, Texas. An inquiry has been launched by the US Navy's Criminal Investigation Service after the military was presented with evidence that the 15 civilians, including seven women and three children still in their nightclothes, ...
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| Officials: Afghan convert to be freed |
An Afghan man threatened with execution because he converted from Islam to Christianity is expected to be released from custody at the end of the day, a Western diplomat and Afghan officials close to President Hamid Karzai told CNN Sunday.But other sources in the Afghan judiciary said the case against Abdul Rahman had been thrown out on technical grounds and sent back to prosecutors to gather more evidence. Those same sources said Rahman may not be released.Karzai has been under growing international pressure to find a way to free Rahman without angering Muslim clerics who have called for him to be killed.The Afghan Cabinet discussed the case Saturday, but results of that meeting were unknown. A government source familiar with his case said on Friday he would be released in the coming days....
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