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Much mystery remains to shroud the assassination of Hamas man Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. al-Mabhouh was a senior Hamas military commander and one of the founders of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian socio-political organization Hamas. Much controversy surrounds the death. After all, here is an Arab fundamentalist [...]

The Hezbollah went to war with the Israeli army in 2006. The conflict between Lebanon and Israel does not seem to abet. Tension is mounting up once again. There is an assassination that wants to be avenged. There is the fear of growing arsenal of long range rockets. There are still the age-old issues of illegal occupation of land seen as incursion [...]

Drug trafficking on an industrial scale is happening in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. The country is said to be the African gateway for European and South American cocaine. The country has also been ravaged by poverty, civil war (1998-1999) and a national culture of political murder. It is also said that regional distribution of Guinea-Bissau cocaine [...]

Rumors have been circulating that the car crash that injured Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and killed his wife Susan was not really an accident as Tsvangirai thinks it was. Whether there was foul play or not, it certainly looked as a baptism of fire for the newly installed PM who had to fight tooth and nail to share governing powers with [...]

The attack killed 22 others. Years later, no one is formally charged. For the first time, a UN sponsored court will investigate an individual crime. UN tribunals usually indicts for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. There are indications that the Syrian regime was involved in the crime. In turn, the Syrian regime rejected the accusation. [...]

One year ago Pakistan lost one of its biggest political leaders on this day. Benazir Bhutto was brutally assassinated while she was returning from a political campaign. Assassinations and executions are not a new reality for dictatorial regimes. But it is rather intriguing that three members of Bhutto family should meet such an unnatural death. Benazir [...]