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Still, Democrats seem most interested in raking over the Plame story in search of any remaining political sparks with which to light an election-year fire. It appears they are hoping that the White House will do something stupid, like try to stop McClellan from testifying. Democrats tried to spook the White House by inflating the potential value of McClellan's testimony. McClellan himself hired the high-profile husband-and-wife legal team of Michael and Jane Tigar to defend him in case the Administration does try to play hardball. The Tigars specialize in defending unpopular clients - from accused Nazi...
Just hours before the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas went into effect Thursday morning, a 24-year-old Gaza militant with a death wish, named Yusef, fired a last fusillade of rockets, and made a run for it. He watched the five rockets soar into the sky and streak towards southern Israel. Then, Yusef did a stupid thing: he crept back to retrieve the rocket-launcher. By now, he was in the cross hairs of an Israeli drone, which had spotted him creeping along a wall, under a bough of orange bougainvillea. The remote controllers of the pilotless aircraft...
...crescendo of violence in the hours before the truce took effect, militants fired more than 29 rockets and Israel responded with three air and artillery strikes. Says one Islamic Jihad rocket-man named Mohamed, limping from a piece of Israeli shrapnel in his foot: "We had a busy day. Our commanders told us to fire off as many rockets as we could." Mohammed was injured shortly before midnight by an Israeli artillery shell two minutes after he fired his ninth rocket under a glaring full moon...
...only sensible course of action: The alternative would have been a full-blown Israeli invasion of Gaza and a drawn-out campaign that would have killed hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers - and even then, such an offensive would not likely have dislodged Hamas or eliminated its potential to fire rockets at Israel...
...armed gangs of thugs, but others complain quietly that the Islamic militants are ruthless and methodical in curbing other militias and political foes from operating in the Strip. On the other hand, says one Gaza observer, "Hamas can now order the other militias to abide by the cease-fire, which it couldn't do before." All major resistance groups signed on to the Egyptian-sponsored truce...