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Bond heads to Dubai in new novel
Dubai police chief Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan accused Israeli spy agency Mossad of being behind the killing. The emirate's police released footage of his alleged assassins filmed by hotel closed-circuit security cameras…
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The brutal truth about Tunisia
Arabs used to say that two-thirds of the entire Tunisian population – seven million out of 10 million, virtually the whole adult population – worked in one way or another for Mr Ben Ali's secret police. -
Robert Fisk: Some people will do anything to avoid blame
I have, for example, just opened my copy of the Toronto Star to discover how a city police officer – a certain Detective Paul Lentsch, whose name must surely now become indispensable to all semanticists – wanted to express… -
Israeli parliament backs 'McCarthyite' investigation into human rights groups
Other groups in Yisrael Beiteinu's sights reportedly include B'Tselem, which – among much else – furnished the army with reports which led to a number of investigations by military police of alleged violations during the… -
Palestinian killed at West Bank checkpoint
Violence in the occupied West Bank has largely tapered off in the past few years as a result of security measures by Israel and a bolstered Palestinian police force supervised by Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud -
In Bethlehem tourism is reborn, but only for a few
The area is one of the most lawless in an otherwise safe town because the Palestinian police are prevented by Israel from operating here. Palestinian officials share ambitious plans for the town, hoping to turn Star Street,… -
Briton stabbed and US tourist killed in Israel knife attack
Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said it was probably a "terrorist attack" given the way in which the two women were tied up and stabbed. Ms Wilson, a 46-year old Briton who emigrated to Israel in 1991, described how she… -
American tourist stabbed to death near Jerusalem
Police said there were no signs that Ms Wilson had been sexually assaulted or robbed. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld identified the murdered woman as After Ms Wilson reported the incident, police and paramedics… -
Speed guns replace AK-47s on the pacified streets of Jenin
The fine for speeding up to 80kph is 300 shekels (about £50), while a driver going beyond that is also taken to court so that he may lose his license, police say. He was going 63kph, 13kph over the limit, which police insist… -
Criticism mounts over Israel's 'unpreparedness' for wildfire
Israel's police spokesman, Micky Rosenfeld, confirmed yesterday that two arrested teenaged boys from a Druze village in the area were being questioned on suspicion of having negligently caused the fire.
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Israeli officials under fire as deadly blaze rages
Both were accused of having failed to extinguish a camp fire which led to the conflagration, police said. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dispatched three firetrucks and crew to the Haifa area, after a rare and friendly… -
Israeli prison guards killed in 'worst ever' forest fires
All of those believed to have died were aboard the bus, an unnamed police official told Agence France Presse, while emergency services said three of the passengers escaped with critical injuries. Several homes in a kibbutz… -
Soldiers who made boy search 'bomb' bags freed
The only other conviction so far arising out of 47 military police investigations into the operation was of a soldier sentenced to seven months for stealing and using a Palestinian's credit card. Her son Majed, who was… -
A rabbi struggles to protect his Palestinian flock
Though attacked several times in the past by settlers, he seemed impervious to the potential danger or the hill's status – of which he would be fiercely reminded by police a few minutes later – as a closed military zone. -
Rescued from the shredder, Carlos the Jackal's missing years
As the Stasi's reconstituted secret police files revealed yesterday, the hardline communist regime afforded Carlos hitherto unimagined levels of assistance. Sanchez, who was nicknamed "Carlos the Jackal" when it became known…