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The Rise and Rise of Robert Gatesby Roger MorrisJune 26, 2007TomDispatch Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 8, 1985, an Islamic Sabbath -- In Bir El-Abed, an impoverished, crowded Shiite quarter in the southern reaches of the Lebanese capital, Muhammad Husain Fadlallah stops on the street to speak to an elderly woman; and so, the revered 51 year-old cleric, delayed momentarily, will not be home at the usual time when a car bomb explodes at his apartment doorstep with a force felt miles away in the Chouf Mountains and well out in the Mediterranean.
By Roger MorrisThe Specialist (Part 1)TomDispatch23/06/2007It was a failed administration's ritual scapegoating, the ousting last winter of its ruinous secretary of defense.
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