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…azi’s successor as chief-of-staff, Benny Gantz, had signed off on the attack plan. While the Iranians were getting ever closer to nuclear-weapons capability, the strike force that we were assembling was also better equipped, trained and prepared to mount a complex, yet almost cer...

…ssad had notched up a series of successes in delaying the Iranians from getting there. But they were getting inexorably closer. In fact, when I’d taken over as Defense Minister under Olmert, I formally directed the new chief-of-staff, Gaby Ashknazi, to get to work on a plan to at...

…atroop commander who’d been with me on the Rue Verdun raid in Beirut. My own hope was that the nod would go to any even closer friend of mine: Dan Shomron. I had first got to know Dan well in the late sixties after Karameh, Israel’s costly standoff with Arafat, when Fatah’s infl...

…us a hangar and a 707 identical to the Sabena plane. Shai, Danny Yatom and I took two airline technicians with us for a closer look at the Boeing. We studied up on it as quickly as we could, beginning with the cockpit and the front door, which we saw was too high to reach without...

…osives. But I was confident that any apprehension would be overtaken by adrenalin when as the assault began. As we got closer, Shai Agmon radioed me. He said two or three people, not the terrorists, had come out of the plane. One seemed to be the Red Cross man. They were about 1...

…fficulty in experiencing God directly despite their efforts. Page | 116 Jake: “I remember desperately wanting to draw closer to God, and [to have] one of these inspired Holy Spirit moments ... I wanted those [experiences] and I sought them out, but I never found myself encounte...

…as between 74 million and 175 million. The results of both estimates are in general agreement. If the actual number is closer to the low end of the Berkeley range, then our 5 million book corpus encompasses a little more than 5% of all books ever published; if it is at the high...

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…mportance of our alliance with Washington, it was against our inrerests as well. Yet with hostilities obviously getting closer, Misha phoned Defense Secretary Dick Cheney a few days later to remind him of the guid pro quo: we would be kept fully in the loop about the details and...

…ble questionable contacts who might or might not have been the source or sources for Epstein’s wealth, seemed to get no closer to an answer, beyond confirming her own sense of dubiousness. Epstein, sensing that he might be exposing himself, tried to stop the process (Ward, well...

…dinate efforts to locate him with the Shin Bet and the southern command. But it gradually became clear he might be much closer to where he’d been seized. The Shin Bet got a description of the kidnappers’ car, and found it was a rental that had been picked up and returned in east...

…illary is caught in the middle, but doesn’t appear to be making efforts to bring the two most important men in her life closer. Even so, she works hard to keep the hatchet with Obama buried. This requires staying on good terms with his White House. Hillary has known Tom Donilon,...

…n January, toppling the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt and sending shockwaves through Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and Syria. A closer look at the political scene in Baghdad, however, shows that all is not well. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is in hot water, like many of his Arab counter...

…t. Jeffrey looked at Ghislane and then Ghislane looked at me, placing me once again in the spotlight. They both scooted closer to where I was sitting and I felt something stirring in the air. The biggest turning point of events in all of my time spent with them. Jeffrey sat next...

…federal law; federal crimes are largely confined to offenses that implicate distinct federal interests - it is probably closer to U.S. federal criminal law in 1910 than 2010. The result is that in Australia federal criminal law enforcement overlaps much less with state criminal l...