Ex-spy: CIA, Italians worked on abduction
A former Italian intelligence agent told prosecutors that the top CIA official in Italy in 2003 worked directly with Italian military intelligence to abduct a Muslim cleric who was later...
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Italy arrests 2 in alleged CIA plot
Two high-level Italian intelligence officials were arrested and four Americans, including the CIA's former Rome station chief, were being sought Wednesday as part of a long-running investigation into the abduction...
INSIDE IRAN
Surrounded by billowy white wedding gowns, in a neighborhood where voters fervently supported President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a year ago, dressmaker Mahdi Hushyar offered a quick retort when asked about Iran's...
Rebuilding from a civil war
Liberia offers an intense example of how a failed state needed more than money--more vigilance, more planning, more sharp-eyed justice--to recover from devastating civil war. Even in peace, it remains...
A spirit of hope
The last days of battle in Liberia nearly ravaged the Gertee family and its future. The family had just finished daily prayers when a bolt of smoke and fire struck...
A FIGHTING CHANCE
Kindergartners struggling to write their ABCs at a Salvation Army elementary school here are composing, with every crooked scrawl, the next chapter in Liberia's recovery from war and strife. Among...
Skilled at killing, confused by postwar life
MOMO FALA DUKOE says he hated war, but when the 16-year-old is asked about his proudest moments of childhood, he speaks of bloodletting. "I was good at taking orders. And...
Orphaned by war, enslaved by peace
WAR AND PEACE have been cruel to Gift Dorcus Somo. Only when dusk falls, the sun fades and she no longer can see to work does Gift have a moment...
A generation is left wanting years after battles have ended
Faraway wars are easy to forget. Liberia's 14-year plunge into bloodlust lingers, in images and memory, for its stain on a generation in West Africa. Among its 3.5 million people,...
WAR’S CHILDREN
Faraway wars are easy to forget. Liberia's 14-year plunge into bloodlust lingers, in images and memory, for its stain on a generation in West Africa. Among its 3.5 million people,...