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? began demanding a constitutional monarchy or even the outright ouster of the Al-Khalifa family. Many protesters saw these as reasonable responses to years of empty promises to give the majority Shiites a real share of power—and to the vicious government crackdown that had kill...

…hearing Yitzhak was dead: his murder would leave a huge hole — in me, in all Israelis. He was an extraordinary mix of qualities: a brave officer, first in the pre-state Palmach and then the new Israeli army; a chief of staff and defense minister at critical periods in our history...

…ey partied the night away on March 15, 2005, at a Manhattan charity event featuring singer Rod Stewart. But as they socialized with the cream of Manhattan society, including CBS President Les Moonves, his wife Julie Chen, Sean Lennon and Padma Lakshmi, at the Wall Street Rising e...

as well as deliver a major speech on Middle East policy. But the resignation didn't come as a surprise to those who worked closest with Mitchell. A State Department official described to Newsweek a man increasingly annoyed by both parties' constant moving of the goal posts and th...

… 80 Increased taxes on ordinary |Changing formulas affecting 70 income, capital gains and inflation indexation for 60 qualified dividends entitlements Present value of "Bracket creep": higher tax Defense spending cuts 50 unfunded : é brackets applying to lower AQ entitlement . :...

…se on life. While it may no longer be as useful for entrenched autocracies to mask their nature with an illusion of pluralism, free- ly elected leaders with authoritarian ambitions can use similar techniques to replace genuine democratic institutions with hollowed-out fagades. Th...

…ation, in August 1998. The unidentified author writes that Islamic aid organizations located in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Somalia, and Tajikistan provided funds and cover to terrorists. (See Federal Mot. to Supplement Record on Prince Naif and Prince Salman, Ex. 2, at 2.) Donors to th...

…h Puddington CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction: Modern Authoritarians: Origins, Anatomy, Outlook 5 Chapters 1. Validating Autocracy through the Ballot 10 2. Propaganda at Home and Abroad 15 3. The Enemy Within: Civil Society at Bay 22 4. The Ministry of Truth in Peace and...

…n refugees are already sheltering inside Turkey, as are numerous Syrian army defectors. Possibly anticipating Syrian retaliation, the newspaper Hiirriyet reported that President Abdullah Giil recently warned Assad would pay a heavy price for stirring up trouble in Turkey's Kurdis...

…exed: “But there is no harbor in Gaza.” He said: “That’s not the point. They could build one if we left Gaza.” Then I realized that, contrary to common opinion, Sharon had no ideological inhibitions about leaving Gaza. His concerns were only about security. This gave me high hope...

10 In a civil war, a society is divided into armed camps that, initially at least, are roughly the same size. That’s not the case in Syria, where the uprising is backed by an overwhelming majority against a government that’s dominated by a small minority — the Ba’ath Party. To m...

822 the Global Diamond Resource’s Chairman by an executive of SBG. Ashton Complaint 1459; Burnett Complaint { 328. Plaintiffs claim that SBG had an address in Rockville, Maryland until very recently. Ashton Complaint 1545; Burnett Com- plaint 1318. SBG claims the Rockville addr...

bin Laden founded the Maktab al Khidmat (“Office of Services”) to facilitate the provision of financial and logistic support to the mujahedeen.9 Throughout the Afghan jihad

thereby providing al-Qaeda with an efficient mechanism to support its global expansion. Defendant Abdullah Naseef met personally with Osama bin Laden around the time of Al-Qaeda’s formation

…ance complaint. I. Subject Matter Jurisdiction Under the FSIA [2-4] Under the FSIA, a foreign state and its instrumentalities are presumed im- mune from United States courts’ jurisdic- tion. Saudi Arabia v. Nelson, 507 US. 349, 355, 1138 S.Ct. 1471, 128 L.Ed.2d 47 (1993); 28 U....