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...Alias, Abrams sells the ludicrous setup with excellent casting (including Party of Five's Matthew Fox and The Lord of the Rings hobbit Dominic Monaghan), inventive details and sharp comic relief. A desert island is a hermetic setting--not much room for fun Quentin Tarantino cameos there. So Abrams loads up on intriguing characters (a fugitive, an Iraqi Republican Guard veteran and so forth), gives them surprising secrets and continually subverts our ideas of who's good, who's bad and who can be trusted. Above all, Abrams understands that if you make your story a little farfetched...
...worst atrocity of the Irish Troubles: three bombs exploding within 90 seconds during rush hour in Dublin in May 1974, killing 27 and maiming hundreds. Ninety minutes later, another bomb went off outside a pub in Monaghan, killing seven. No one was ever charged with the crimes. Last week a four-year judicial inquiry concluded that it was probable, though not proven, that the loyalist paramilitaries who planted the bombs had help from low-level members of the British security forces. Justice Henry Barron, the report's author, tried to probe whether senior British intelligence figures were involved...
...been poisoned by criminal enterprise. FARC rakes in an estimated $1 billion a year, largely by protecting cocaine traffic. Uribe gained an important victory when the E.U. promised to take "more decisive steps" to combat Colombia's "plague." His government is currently trying Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley and James Monaghan, suspected I.R.A. bombmaking experts arrested in 2001 for allegedly training FARC militants. All three insist they were there to observe peace talks, which have since collapsed. But senior Colombian police tell Time the FARC paid the trio $2 million for explosives and mortar instruction. Last spring, FARC mortars killed...
COLOMBIA I.R.A. in Court The trial of three Irish men accused of training Marxist guerrillas resumed as prosecution witnesses testified amid heavy security. Niall Connolly, Martin McCauley and James Monaghan, all allegedly linked to the I.R.A., refused to appear in court, claiming they would not get a fair trial...
...Dave B. Monaghan circled through the group signing up supporters for one-hour solidarity shifts that would last through the evening. "We are splitting up the responsibility, to make sure that their are always people outside offering emotional support...