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WOW!! The other Hsu dropped. "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is returning $850,000 to donors raised for her presidential campaign by Norman Hsu..."

Hamas gunmen killed five of their own combatants in an ambush on a Fatah vehicle that had been carrying Hamas detainees, Fatah officials said Wednesday. Also killed were two members of the Fatah-affiliated Preventive Security force that had been guarding the detained Hamas members, the officials said.

Texans will be able to use deadly force to defend themselves in their homes, cars and workplaces under a bill signed Tuesday by Gov. Rick Perry. The bill states that a person has no duty to retreat from an intruder before using deadly force. The building or vehicle must be occupied at the time for the deadly force provision to apply, and the person using force cannot provoke the attacker or be involved in criminal activity. The Legislature approved the measure this month, and the National Rifle Association backed it. The law takes effect Sept. 1. "The right to defend...

Webb staffer allegedly brought firearm into Russell Senate building A Senate aide was arrested Monday on charges of bringing a firearm into the Russell Senate building, U.S. Capitol police told NBC News. Kimberly Schneider, a spokeswoman for the police, said the aide worked for Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. He entered the building at approximately 10:50 a.m., she said, and was in possession of an unregistered firearm. He did not have a license to carry a pistol in Washington, according to Schneider. Webb's office issued a statement identifying the staffer as Phillip Thompson.

Updated:2007-03-21 02:13:09Activist Says Zoo 'Must Kill' Baby Polar Bear By JOSH WARD AP BERLIN (March 21) - Berlin Zoo's abandoned polar bear cub Knut looks cute, cuddly and has become a front-page media darling, but an animal rights activist insisted Monday he would have been better off dead than raised by humans. Should Cub Have Been Left to Die? Animal rights activist Frank Albrecht said a polar bear cub should have been left to die since it was abandoned by its mother. "Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal protection laws," animal rights activist Frank...

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards promised to raise taxes and provide universal health care if elected to the White House, accusing his rivals of lacking the political "backbone" to voice their convictions. "Yes, we'll have to raise taxes," the former one-term senator from North Carolina and 2004 vice-presidential candidate said during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday. "The only way you can pay for a health care plan that costs anywhere from $90 billion to $120 billion is there has to be a revenue source."

INDIANAPOLIS— The NFL has nixed a church's plans to use a wall projector to show the...Super Bowl game... NFL officials spotted a promotion of Fall Creek Baptist Church's "Super Bowl Bash" on the church Web site last week and overnighted a lette...demanding the party be canceled... Initially, the league objected to the church's plan to charge a fee to attend and that the church used the license-protected words "Super Bowl" in its promotions. ...Newland said he told the NFL his church would not charge anyone and that it would drop the use of the forbidden words. But the NFL objected...

WASHINGTON — House Democrats in the first weeks of the new Congress plan to establish a dedicated fund to promote renewable energy and conservation, using money from oil companies. That's only one legislative hit the oil industry is expected to take next year as a Congress run by Democrats is likely to show little sympathy to the cash-rich, high-profile business. Whether the issue is rolling back tax breaks — some approved by Congress only 18 months ago — pushing for more use of ethanol and other biofuels instead of gasoline, or investigations into shortfalls in royalty payments to the government,...

Americans celebrate Christmas in many different ways but in Bakersfield, California, an apparent secular fanatic observed the holiday by dousing himself with flammable liquid and setting himself ablaze. According to press reports, he meant to show his passionate objection to Thursday night’s decision by the Kern High School Board of Trustees to change the name of the winter break to “Christmas vacation” and the spring break to “Easter Vacation.” The protester (the headline proclaimed, “Name Change Sparks Protest”) first set fire to a Christmas tree and several flags, then lit himself to express his displeasure at the Board’s decision. Fire...

Duke Lacrosse Controversy Published: Dec 15, 2006 12:31 PM Modified: Dec 15, 2006 12:32 PM Defense to ask for paternity testing By ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press DURHAM -- Lawyers for three Duke lacrosse players charged with rape will ask for paternity testing to determine if any of their clients are the father of their accuser's child -- a prospect they dismissed today as an "absolute impossibility." Defense attorney Joseph Cheshire said Friday the defense has known for some time about the pregnancy, but didn't yet know if the 28-year-old woman has given birth. A person familiar with the case,...

A 5-year-old girl is undergoing treatment for possible HIV infection after the man charged with raping her -- an illegal alien who was previously deported to Mexico -- admitted he has the virus, authorities said. The case has re-energized some state lawmakers to push for tougher penalties for people who commit sex crimes and knowingly expose their victims to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Julio Cesar Cruz Martinez, 32, of Fairhope is being held in a segregated unit at the Baldwin County Corrections Center on charges of first-degree rape, sexual abuse and sodomy, a jail official said Wednesday. Police...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 2006 – Five years after military recruiting hit the ceiling after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, recruiting remains solid, with every service meeting its active-duty recruiting goal for the 15th consecutive month. Recruiting and retention statistics for August, just released by the Defense Department, show the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force all meeting or exceeding both their monthly as well as year-to-date recruiting goals for the year. At the same time, retention remains solid across the board, with all services expected to meet their retention goals for the fiscal year, officials said. During August,...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2006 -- At about 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, Debra Wagner and her colleagues at the Pentagon got a phone call telling them to turn on the television. There had been a terrible “accident” in New York City. Debra Wagner, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, stands by a display honoring the people who lost their lives in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Wagner said she came through the tragic events with a profound belief in the resilience of America and its people. Photo by...

WASHINGTON, July 17, 2006 – A suicide bomb attack in the Gardez district Afghanistan's of Paktia province killed five people and wounded up to 22 others, mostly innocent civilians, yesterday, military officials reported. An extremist armed with a suicide vest detonated his explosives as an Afghan National Army patrol approached. One Afghan soldier and four Afghan civilians were killed in the blast. Two Afghan soldiers and up to 20 more innocent Afghan civilians were wounded by the explosion and transported to a local hospital for treatment. Several vehicles and structures also were damaged. A coalition quick reaction force and explosive...

WASHINGTON, July 9, 2006 – Charges have been preferred against four U.S. soldiers accused of rape and murder in connection with the deaths of four Iraqi civilians in March. A fifth soldier has been accused of dereliction of duty for failing to report the offenses, U.S. officials announced today. The five soldiers were charged yesterday in connection with their alleged participation in the rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman and the murders of three members of her family. The fifth soldier was charged with dereliction of duty for his failure to report the rape and murder of these...

Back from the DeadMARIE COCCO June 27, 2006 WASHINGTON -- The corpse will be revived. Plans to resuscitate President Bush's stone-cold proposal to turn Social Security from a guaranteed insurance program into a patchwork of private savings accounts already are in the works. All it will take, says Grover Norquist, conservative strategist extraordinaire, is the election of another five conservative Republican senators -- enough to surmount procedural roadblocks by Democrats or those tremulous Republican moderates who would try to preserve the nation's most successful and best-loved government program. ``I believe that when there are 60 Republican senators we will move...

After a day of near quiet, a wave of five Kassam rockets was launched at Israel from northern Gaza Thursday morning. An Arutz Sheva TV was on the scene - live. Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal called on the government to resign in light of its failure to protect the city's residents. Visiting MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) decried the fact that while Sderot residents are suffering the consequences of the last withdrawal, "Olmert is abroad, declaring that the next withdrawal is a fait accompli." An Arutz Sheva English TV crew was in Sderot filming a live shoot of the hunger...

British take on Taliban in five days of Afghan fire-fights By Isambard Wilkinson in Kabul (Filed: 23/05/2006) British troops have engaged in fire-fights with Taliban insurgents for the first time since deploying in Afghanistan, it emerged yesterday. A senior British officer in Kabul said more than 100 soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade helped Afghan soldiers and police fight off attacks by hundreds of Taliban fighters over the past five days in the southern Helmand province. It was also disclosed that recently commissioned British Apache helicopters have been involved in combat operations for the first time ever. "They fired at...

Five more bird flu deaths in Indonesia 16:19 17 May 2006 NewScientist.com news service The World Health Organization has confirmed that five more Indonesians, all related, have died of bird flu, a health ministry official said on Wednesday. The deaths bring the nation's overall death toll to 30. "They were apparently infected at a family event," said Nyoman Kandun, director of the health ministry's communicable disease control centre. The victims were two men, two women and an eight-year-old girl who lived near one another in North Sumatra. Kandun said earlier this week that the five had died within days of...

GULFPORT, Miss. (NNS) -- Commander, 1st Naval Construction Division Rear Adm. Robert L. Phillips presented five Seabees, currently serving with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 133, with the Purple Heart medal here May 8. Steelworker 2nd Class Jody Allen, Construction Electrician 2nd Class Sean Sullivan, Steelworker 3rd Class Christopher Moran, Constructionman Cody Cannon and Constructionman Richard Fisher received the Purple Heart for injuries sustained while operating in and around Al Asad, Iraq, as part NMCB 133’s recent deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In addition to elected officials, family members and Seabees, guests at the ceremony included more than...

WASHINGTON - Never will Katrina be so little missed. Nor Dennis, Rita, Stan and Wilma - four other hurricane names from last year's devastating storms that have now been officially retired. Normally six lists of names are used in rotation for storms in the Atlantic-Caribbean-Gulf of Mexico region, but names of particularly destructive storms are retired. The decision to retire these five names was made by an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization meeting in Puerto Rico, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced. They were part of a record 27 named storms and 15 hurricanes that occurred in...

FORT HUACHUCA — Although news reports indicate the Army is having a hard time enlisting first-time soldiers a recruiter in Pennsylvania got a two-for-one deal when Cassandra and Calista Walker joined together. When the 23-year-old twins walked into the recruiter’s office “His eyes bulged, I bet he earned a big bonus for us,” said Cassandra, the older of the two by five minutes. Calista said, “We didn’t know if the Army could handle the two of us. We were a package deal.” The younger twin, Calista, notes she is a half-inch taller than her sister, and then sheepishly adds sotto...

SIERRA VISTA — It started as a typical day. Three older children headed for school, two younger ones went to a day-care center and the parents went to work. But, the Green family was to see their lives change when slightly after 8 a.m. on Feb. 21 the house they called home caught fire. For Carlton and Heather Green, both sergeants first class assigned to Fort Huachuca, sitting outside their home in a quiet Sierra Vista residential area on Monday the shock of an event a week ago still haunts them. It is also distressing to their three older children,...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2006 – A vehicle bomb killed five Iraqis today, and Iraqi and U.S. soldiers have continued to arrest suspected terrorists and find weapons, military officials reported. Two Iraqi adults and three children were killed in Hillah when a minivan, which had been used as a taxi, exploded. The minivan was traveling in the southern district of Hillah when it reportedly was stopped. An unidentified man left the vehicle, entered a red sedan, and drove away. Moments later, the minivan exploded. The minivan's occupants suffered minor injuries and were taken to the Hillah medical treatment facility, officials said....

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17, 2006 – A suicide car bomber killed four Iraqi police officers and one child and wounded 16 civilians and two Iraqi police officers yesterday at an Iraqi police checkpoint near Muqdadiyah, Iraq, officials reported. Officials said the attack was initiated by a flurry of small-arms fire followed by the devastating blast. Coalition forces from a nearby base responded to the attack and assisted with the post-blast investigation. Officials emphasized that reporting terrorist activity is the best way for local residents to help end violence in their neighborhoods and protect their families and homes. Cash rewards are available...

Five Danes guilty of Iraq abuse Capt Annemette Hommel was sent home early from Iraq A Danish army captain and four military police sergeants have been found guilty of abusing prisoners while they were based in southern Iraq. But the judge ruled that because of "extenuating circumstances", the five would not be punished. He said they had not received clear guidelines from the Danish military. Capt Annemette Hommel and the others were convicted of verbal humiliation and forcing prisoners to maintain painful postures during interrogation. Hard line Capt Hommel, 38, and the four other defendants had denied the accusations relating...

Once again, convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti is trying to "lead" his people from inside an Israeli prison. If his win in primaries in the West Bank on Friday provides any insight into the Palestinian popular mood, it is that they are still addicted to terrorist "leaders" like Barghouti. According to the BBC: He [Barghouti] is serving five life terms in an Israeli jail for the killing of four Israelis and a Greek monk. Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said there was no chance of Barghouti getting an early release. Barghouti, 46, won 34,000 out of 40,000 votes - affirming...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2005 – Five Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), were killed today during a firefight while conducting Operation Steel Curtain in New Ubaydi, Iraq, military officials reported. Sixteen enemy fighters were confirmed killed in the engagement, officials said. Officials also announced that a Task Force Baghdad soldier died today of wounds suffered in a Nov. 15 roadside bomb attack northwest of Baghdad. The servicemembers' are being withheld pending notification of next of kin. In other news from Iraq, Iraqi soldiers from the Desert Protectors -- Iraqi scouts recruited...

Five killed in charge at Spanish border By Isambard Wilkinson in Gibraltar (Filed: 30/09/2005) Spain sent reinforcements to its enclaves in northern Morocco yesterday after five Africans died in a rush at a border fence by hundreds of migrants desperate to enter Europe. Scene of carnage: Spanish workers repair the razor-wire barrier which was damaged in the desperate rush The assault on Ceuta was the latest manoeuvre by thousands of immigrants using tactics reminiscent of medieval sieges to force their way into the European Union. Hundreds of ladders were left pinioned against the border's razor wire after the pre-dawn charge...

United States Senator John McCain will not be in attendance at Saturday’s Arizona Republican Assembly state convention. He would not want to be present, nor would his presence be all that welcomed by Republicans. Among the resolutions to be addressed during Saturday’s annual Arizona Republican Assembly (ARA) convention is an effort to censure Arizona’s senior U.S. senator over his betrayal of the GOP on juidicial filibusters and other important issues. The ARA is a principled, constitutional organization which honors – without compromise – the Republican Party platform. In recent years, Senator McCain has shown little regard for the party or...

(IsraelNN.com) Two of the five terrorists who planned to carry out a twin suicide bombing in Jerusalem Thursday recently were released from prison. Hamza Hassin Brigia, who lives near Bethlehem and was responsible for the Islamic Jihad infrastructure in Bethlehem, was released from administrative detention last February. Muhanad Abu Romy was recently released after having been jailed for buying weapons from Islamic Jihad terrorists. The terrorists had placed the explosives in cardboard boxes and put them inside bags with shrapnel and nails in order to increase bodily injury. One of the arguments against freeing more jailed terrorists and prisoners is...

CINCINNATI Two officers accused of handcuffing a 5-year-old boy after a fight on a school bus have been suspended with pay from police duties while the city investigates the allegations, authorities said. Chief Tom Streicher assigned officers Douglas Snider and Kaneshia Howell to desk work Tuesday and took away their guns, police officials said. Mekel Finch, the boy's mother, sued the police department, the bus company and the driver in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on Friday. She is asking for more than $50,000. The lawsuit claims the driver improperly detained the boy after he was struck by another child...

Most candid souls will admit that the world is in spiritual pain. Continual disregard of Fatima's warning will doom generations to spiritual bankruptcy. This is especially true in the disregard for the First Saturday devotions. The America Needs Fatima campaign is making a special effort to help Catholics remember. Our Blessed Mother has given us the means to heal and restore order, harmony and peace with a simple solution of prayer and penance, and following the Five First Saturday's specific instructions. The America Needs Fatima staff is promoting this devotion in a 425,000 prayer-card campaign. Five individual cards have been...

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China’s ‘Golden Age,’ over five crucial centuries Souren Melikian International Herald Tribune Saturday, October 23, 2004 NEW YORK As they walk through the Metropolitan Museum’s ‘‘China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 A.D.,’’ many people will marvel at the new portrait of Chinese art and culture over five crucial centuries that comes across almost instantly. The myth of a monolithic, self-absorbed China is swept aside once and for all. . In a gripping introduction (sometimes difficult to follow because it is so packed with information), James Watt, the Met curator who masterminded this unforgettable exhibition, describes the intermingling of the...

Tropical Depression Five Advisory Number 2 Statement as of 11:00 PM AST on August 13, 2004 ...Depression moving rapidly westward toward the Windward Islands... Watches may be required for portions of the Lesser Antilles by Saturday morning. Interests in the Lesser Antilles and the eastern Caribbean Sea should closely monitor this system over the next few days. At 11 PM AST...0300z...the center of Tropical Depression Five was located near latitude 9.4 north...longitude 48.3 west or about 895 miles...1440 km...east-southeast of the Windward Islands. The depression is moving toward the west near 21 mph ...33 km/hr...and this motion is expected to...

Five decades ago, Nazi case set precedent for military tribunals Connie Cass THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, July 06, 2004 - 12:00 AM WASHINGTON -- A German submarine slipped through dark waters toward New York's Long Island in June 1942, creeping so close it bumped the sandy bottom. A second settled into shallows along the Florida coast. Each sent ashore four men, who dragged crates of explosives up the beaches. They were under orders to blow up American railroads, bridges and factories. But none got the chance. All eight were arrested within two weeks. Within two months, six were executed. They...

Arsenic in Tuscany water 'five times limit' By Bruce Johnston in Rome (Filed: 26/06/2004) Britons holidaying in Tuscany this summer may be drinking up to five times the permissable level of arsenic in water without being told, The Telegraph has learnt. Although a national law limits arsenic to 10 microgrammes per litre, Tuscany used a legal loophole to pass a decree making an exception in many towns in the centre and south of the region.As a result, water can contain up to 50 microgrammes until the end of the year. Many of the towns involved, including Siena, are popular with...

Analysis of the Bush Speech May 25, 2004 Compiled By: Ryan Mauro tdcanalyst@optonline.net On May 24, 2004, President George W. Bush made a major speech about Iraq at the US Army War College. WorldThreats.com saw an opportunity to turn around opinion, and morale, about the war. Although there are several good points, it fell short. The formation of the speech around a 5-point plan was excellent. The pro-Islam rhetoric, discussion of the Abu Ghraib prison (and decision to tear it down), and discussion of the evils the terrorists and radicals want was fantastic. That cannot be overemphasized. However, this space...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Security forces have killed five wanted militants and were pursuing others after shootouts that spread over two days in the port city of Jiddah, a Saudi security official said Friday. Police cordoned off the al-Safaa neighborhood late Thursday after receiving a tip that some militants were in the neighborhood, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry. "The wanted militants started shooting, using different kinds of weapons." The ministry said three militants were killed in shooting late Thursday, and one was arrested. Media reports had earlier said two terrorists were killed and three captured. The...

Army 'can't go to war for five years' By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 25/03/2004) Britain's Armed Forces will not be able to mount another operation on the scale of the Iraq war for another five years, the Chief of Defence Staff said yesterday. Gen Sir Michael Walker told the Commons defence committee that the Army in particular would not be able to recover from operations in Iraq until 2008 or 2009. "I think we have already accepted that we cannot do another large-scale operation now," he said. "We are unlikely to be able to get to large-scale much before...

There are four planets visible to the naked eye now, and a fifth will begin to make brief appearances in the evening sky during the week of March 14. Not until April 2036 will there be another chance to readily see all five naked-eye planets at the same time in the evening.Last week I provided an overview of this great planet panorama. Here I discuss details of what to expect for each planet. NightSky Friday Visit SPACE.com each Friday to explore a new backyard astronomy feature. >>Go to NightSky Friday archive page    Images THE SETUP: The solar system seen from...

I'll retire in five years, says Mugabe, 80 today (Filed: 21/02/2004) Robert Mugabe suggested yesterday in an interview marking his 80th birthday that he would retire as Zimbabwe's president within five years. "In five years [I will be] here still boxing, writing quite a lot, reading quite a lot and still in politics," he said. "I won't leave politics but I will have retired, obviously." Mr Mugabe, 80 today, has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980. He has left his retirement plans open over the past year despite speculation that he wants a graceful exit in the...

Compulsory sex education for five-year-olds will be demanded today by government advisers on teenage pregnancy, as an essential step towards halving the under-18 concep tion rate by 2010. The teaching of sex and relationships in primary schools is not progressing fast enough to prepare children for the earlier onset of puberty, the Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy will warn ministers in its annual report. The advisers have been encouraged by a 10% reduction in the teenage conception rate since 1998, and they attribute part of this improvement to more confident teaching of personal, social and health education (PSHE) in...

Five year battle to oust Hamza revealed By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor (Filed: 02/07/2003) Abu Hamza, the radical Muslim cleric, was able to use a mosque as a base for extremist activities for almost five years after the first complaints against him, it was revealed yesterday. Abu Hamza A report by the Charity Commission on its decision to ban the claw-handed imam from the Finsbury Park mosque in London disclosed how he had thwarted attempts to eject him since May 1998. Hamza turned the building into a headquarters for Islamic fundamentalists hostile to western values. Yet it was not...

A couple from Marina del Rey were among the five people who died Friday when a light plane crashed into an apartment building in the Fairfax district, relatives said Monday. Tony Vinatieri, 42, and Bonnie Vinatieri, 41, had joined the flight to Sun Valley, Idaho, because the pilot, Jeffrey T. Siegel, was a contractor who wanted to show them houses he had built there, John Vinatieri of Napa said.

Oregon voters have rejected a temporary income tax surcharge -- handing a major victory to the state Libertarian Party, which led the fight against the proposed tax hike. On January 28, in a statewide referendum, voters rejected Measure 28 by 55%-45%. Had it passed, the initiative would have raised taxes by $725 million over three years. "We are very happy tonight," said Oregon LP Executive Director Richard Burke, as the magnitude of the anti-tax vote became clear. "We were very surprised by the margin." Just eight days earlier, a statewide poll by Portland's KATU Television had said the vote was...

East Timor in flames after five die in student riots By Kathy Marks in Sydney 05 December 2002 East Timor was placed under a virtual state of emergency yesterday, with a curfew in the capital, Dili, after student riots in which up to five people were killed and the Prime Minister's house was burnt down. The anger erupted after police shot dead a demonstrator, according to witnesses. Hundreds of protesters looted shops and set fire to buildings, leaving part of the city in smouldering ruins. Witnesses said police fired into the crowd, but the number of deaths was unclear. One...

A Commentary by Dr. Doug Rokke Former US Army's DU team health physicist Former US Army's DU Project Director 10-14-2 Expected US Casualties From War A Commentary by Dr. Doug Rokke Former US Army's DU team health physicist Former US Army's DU Project Director 10-14-2 The upcoming battle Gulf War II will result in casualties that include: * killed in action * wounded in action * killed in accidents * and additional casualties that do not show up until after the completion of hostilities. During the Gulf War between 1990 and 1991 the United States military incurred: 467 individuals wounded...

KARIN LAUB, Associated Press WriterFriday, September 27, 2002 ©2002 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/09/27/international1405EDT0651.DTL (09-27) 11:05 PDT JERUSALEM (AP) -- When Israeli helicopter gunships zeroed in on the chief Hamas bomb maker, he was stuck in traffic in Gaza City's most crowded neighborhood at a time when students were pouring out of two nearby elementary schools. Despite the clear risk to civilians, the pilots slammed two missiles into Mohammed Deif's Mercedes. The tally: two dead bodyguards and 35 wounded bystanders, including 15 children. Deif, wanted by Israel for more than a decade, escaped with moderate injuries. Israel's desire to settle scores...