Saturday, October 29, 2005
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Libby resigns over Plame leak
Lewis Libby, a member of Temple Rodef Shalom in northern Virginia, resigned as Vice President Richard Cheney’s top adviser after he was indicted for perjury.
Libby was charged with lying to a federal grand jury considering possible charges in the leaking of a CIA operative’s name two years ago. Libby resigned on Friday as soon as the indictment was announced.
The operative, Valerie Plame, is married to Joseph Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration’s decision to go to war in Iraq. Wilson said the leaking of the name was retaliation for his criticism.
U.S. official: Hezbollah in Western Hemisphere
Hezbollah is a global terrorist network that operates in the Caribbean and Central America, a U.S. counter-terrorism official said.
“There are parts of Central America where we’ve seen some operatives, where we’ve seen financial transactions — in the Caribbean. In the southern part of the Caribbean, next to Venezuela, in Colombia, we’ve seen some activity there,” Henry Crumpton, the State Department’s counter-terrorism coordinator, said Thursday in testimony to Congress.
Hezbollah “remain a formidable force, in large part because of their sponsorship by Iran, the training they’ve received, the experience they’ve gained from the engagement against Israeli forces,” Crumpton said. “In some ways, you could argue that Hezbollah may be more of a threat than Al-Qaida, given their network, given their expertise, given their state sponsorship.”
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