파키스탄에서 5건의 폭탄테러가 일어나 하루 만에 40명이 숨졌습니다. 미군 미사일에 지도자가 사망한 후 보복 공격을 다짐한 탈레반의 공세가 거침없습니다.

파키스탄군이 탈레반 소탕 작전을 예고하고 있는 가운데 탈레반이 15일 연방수사국(FIA)과 경찰학교 등 4곳을 동시에 공격해 적어도 39명이 숨지는 일이 발생했다. 이에 대해 파키스탄군은 즉각 보복에 나서 남부 와지리스탄 지역의 탈레반 거점을 폭격해 29명이 숨졌다고

앞서 10일 탈레반은 파키스탄 군사령부를 습격해 인질극을 벌여 20여 명에 이르는 사상자가 발생했다. 오늘 오전 9시반쯤 동부 펀자브주 주도인 라호르에 위치한 연방수사국 건물에 무장 괴한 4명이 들이닥쳤다고 지오 TV 등 현지 언론이 보도했습니다.

15일에는 동부 펀자브주 주도인 라호르에 위치한 연방수사국(FIA)과 경찰학교 등 5곳을 대상으로 동시다발 테러를 감행했다.

정부의 소탕전에 대한 탈레반의 반격이 본격화된 가운데, 정부군도 즉각 대응에 나서고 있어 파키스탄에는 전운이 고조되고 있습니다.

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH (AP) – 1 day ago

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party on Wednesday said it had accepted a proposal to hold new presidential and legislative elections next year as part of a broad package meant to end a bitter rivalry with the Islamic militant group Hamas.

Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan said the party had signed the Egyptian-mediated proposal and was dispatching an envoy to Cairo on Thursday to deliver the response. With Egypt seeking a response by Thursday, it remained unclear whether Hamas would accept the deal.

"We have accepted the Egyptian request. Fatah doesn't want to put any obstacles in the way of efforts for national reconciliation. Whoever doesn't respond positively to these efforts will be held responsible," Dahlan said.

The Palestinians have had two rival governments since Hamas fighters ousted pro-Abbas security forces from the Gaza Strip in June 2007. Hamas remains in control of Gaza, while the Western-backed Fatah governs the West Bank. The Palestinians claim both areas as parts of a future independent state.

The infighting has complicated U.S.-led efforts to forge peace between Israel and the Palestinians. While talking to the West Bank government, Israel considers Hamas a terrorist group and maintains a tight blockade over Gaza.

Under the Egyptian proposal, the Palestinians would hold presidential and legislative elections on June 28. In the meantime, Hamas would allow some 3,000 Fatah loyalists to return to duty in the security forces in Gaza. Monitoring committees would work toward establishing a unified Palestinian security force for Gaza and the West Bank, while the rivals would form a separate committee to work together to prepare for the elections.

Fatah negotiator Azzem al-Ahmed said he would deliver the signed agreement to the Egyptians on Thursday. "We signed it without reservations. I hope that Hamas will also sign the agreement so that we can together begin the process of ending the split and restoring national unity."

The proposal does not address some of the key issues in the dispute, most importantly whether a unified Palestinian government would accept international demands to renounce violence and recognize Israel's right to exist.

Hamas' refusal to recognize Israel was a major point of friction in a short-lived Palestinian unity government that disintegrated during the Gaza infighting.

Hostilities remain deep, so any deal is likely to be fragile. Hamas has said that if it accepts the Egyptian proposal, it is not ready to attend a joint signing ceremony with Fatah in the current atmosphere, though a celebration could take place after a Muslim holiday in late November.

Hamas is furious over Abbas' handling of a U.N. report that accused Israel of committing war crimes during a military offensive in Gaza last winter.

Under heavy U.S. pressure, Abbas suspended efforts to press the case against Israel at the U.N. He later reversed himself, but the damage was done and Hamas continues to vilify the president incessantly. Fatah officials, meanwhile, say they want an apology from the detractors.

In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said the group was still studying the proposal "with all credibility and seriousness."

"We confirm that we are dedicated to the direction of the Egyptian efforts but in a way that confirms our rights and principles and the demands and principles of the Palestinian people."

AP correspondents Ben Hubbard in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, and Hadeel al-Shalchi in Cairo contributed to this report.

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Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal stepped off the whirring Black Hawk and headed straight into town. He had come to Garmsir, a dusty outpost along the Helmand River in southern Afghanistan, to size up the war that President Obama has asked him to save. McChrystal pulled off his flak jacket and helmet. His face, skeletal and austere, seemed a piece of the desert itself.

He was surrounded by a clutch of bodyguards, normal for a four-star general, and an array of the Marine officers charged with overseeing the town. Garmsir had been under Taliban control until May 2008, when a force of American Marines swept in and cleared it. Since then, the British, then the Americans, have been holding it and trying, ever so slowly, to build something in Garmsir — a government, an army, a police force — for the first time since the war began more than eight years ago.

The Marines around McChrystal, including the local battalion commander, Lt. Col. Christian Cabaniss, looked surprised, even alarmed, when McChrystal removed his protective gear. But as the group walked the rutted streets into Garmsir’s bazaar, they began taking off their helmets, too.

“Who owns the land here?” McChrystal asked, peering up the street and into the shops. “Is it owned by the farmers or by landlords?”

It was the sort of question a sociologist, or an economist, would ask. No one　 offered an answer.

“If you owned 200 acres here, would you live on it, or would you live somewhere else?” McChrystal asked.

The entourage entered the bazaar. The Afghans sensed that an important American had arrived, and they began to gather in groups inside the stalls. Then the general stopped and turned.

“What do you need here?” McChrystal asked.

A translator turned the general’s words into Pashto.

“We need schools!” one　 Afghan called back. “Schools!”

“We’re working on that,” McChrystal said. “Those things take time.”

McChrystal walked some more, engaging another group of Afghans. He posed the same question.

“Security,” a man said. “We need security. Security first, then the other things will be possible.”

“That is what we are trying to do,” McChrystal said. “But it’s going to take time. Success takes time.”

The questions kept coming, and the answer was the same. After a couple of hours, McChrystal put on his helmet and flak jacket, boarded the Black Hawk and flew to another town.

Success takes time, but how much time does Stanley McChrystal have? The war in Afghanistan is now in its ninth year. The Taliban, measured by the number of their attacks, are stronger than at any time since the Americans toppled their government at the end of 2001. American soldiers and Marines are dying at a faster rate than ever before. Polls in the United States show that opposition to the war is growing steadily.

Worse yet, for all of America’s time in Afghanistan — for all the money and all the blood — the lack of accomplishment is manifest wherever you go. In Garmsir, there is nothing remotely resembling a modern state that could take over if America and its NATO allies left. Tour the country with a general, and you will see very quickly how vast and forbidding this country is and how paltry the effort has been.

And finally, there is the government in Kabul. President Hamid Karzai, onc　e the darling of the West, rose to the top of nationwide elections in August on what appears to be a tide of fraud. The Americans and their NATO allies are confronting the possibility that the government they are supporting, building and defending is a rotten shell.

In his initial assessment of the country, sent to President Obama early last month, McChrystal described an Afghanistan on the brink of collapse and an America at the edge of defeat. To reverse the course of the war, McChrystal presented President Obama with what could be the most momentous foreign-policy decision of his presidency: escalate or fail. McChrystal has reportedly asked for 40,000 additional American troops — there are 65,000 already here — and an accelerated effort to train Afghan troops and police and build an Afghan state. If President Obama can’t bring himself to step up the fight, McChrystal suggested, then he might as well give up.

“Inadequate resources,” McChrystal wrote, “will likely result in failure.”

The magnitude of the choice presented by McChrystal, and now facing President Obama, is difficult to overstate. For what McChrystal is proposing is not a temporary, Iraq-style surge — a rapid influx of American troops followed by a withdrawal. McChrystal’s plan is a blueprint for an extensive American commitment to build a modern state in Afghanistan, where one　 has never existed, and to bring order to a place famous for the empires it has exhausted. Even under the best of circumstances, this effort would most likely last many more years, cost hundreds of billions of dollars and entail the deaths of many more American women and men.

And that’s if it succeeds.

Billionaire executed for contract murder

www.chinaview.cn 2006-03-18 09:01:00

BEIJING, March 18 -- Billionaire Yuan Baojing and two other men were executed Friday in Liaoning Province in the contract killing of a man who threatened to expose Yuan's attempt to murder a businessman. Yuan Baojing (C) appears at the court in Liaoning Province March 17. (Chinacourt.org)     Yuan Baojing, Yuan Baoqi and Yuan Baosen got lethal injection shortly after a public trial in Liaoyang City.       A fourth criminal, Yuan Baofu, was sentenced to death, but the sentence was suspended for two years. That means the death sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment if he is a model inmate over two years.     The murder victim, Wang Xing, had helped the billionaire in the attempted murder of a businessman in southwestern China's Sichuan Province.     Yuan Baojing, a Liaoyang native, registered his Beijing Jianhao Industrial Development Company in Beijing's Huairou District in 1992, the Supreme People's Court reported.     Six months later, he made more than 2 million yuan (US$249,007) of profits. Then he invested in the securities and bonds markets before acquiring more than 60 companies. His assets were valued at more than 3 billion yuan as of 1996, the supreme court said.     He believed businessman friend Liu Han's manipulation of a broker caused him to lose nearly 100 million yuan in Sichuan Province, he told Yuan Baoqi and Wang at a Beijing hotel in late 1996.     Wang suggested punishing Liu. Yuan offered a reward of 160,000 yuan for murdering Liu.     Contract killer Li Haiyang fired two shots at Liu in a Sichuan hotel in February 1997. But the bullets missed Liu, and Li fled. Li was caught and sentenced to life imprisonment.     Starting from 1997, Yuan Baojing turned down Wang's requests to borrow money, and the latter threatened many times to blow the whistle on his crime of organizing the attempted murder.     In early 2001, Yuan Baoqi suggested killing Wang. Yuan Baojing agreed, and gave him 300,000 yuan to pay the contract killers. Yuan Baoqi found Yuan Baofu and Yuan Baosen.     On November 15, 2001, Yuan Baosen and Yuan Baofu stabbed Wang repeatedly, leaving him seriously injured, shortly after Wang left home. The duo fled.     Yuan Baoqi gave Yuan Baofu 90,000 yuan.     Wang continued threatening Yuan Baojing. Then Yuan Baoqi paid Yuan Baofu another 180,000 yuan to "finish the work."     Yuan Baofu and Yuan Baosen waited for Wang near midnight on October 4, 2003, when he left a majhong games shop in Lioayang. As Wang opened the gate to his apartment building, they shot him twice with a hunting rifle. (Source: Shanghai Daily)

주목할만한 사기꾼

• Buddy Adkins & Johnny Bonanno , US: Spector Freight Systems owner(s) falsely represented as a legitimate trucking firm to swindle tens of thousands from transportation firms by false pretenses. 버디 Adkins & 조니 Bonanno, 미국 :들) 거짓 허위로 운송 회사로부터 수천 사기 위해 합법적인 운송 회사로 표현 스펙터화물 시스템 소유자 (. Also used check fraud as well as wire and mail fraud. 또한 사용하는 수표 사기뿐만 아니라, 유선 및 메일 사기.
• Frank Abagnale Jr. , US impostor who wrote bad checks and falsely represented himself as a qualified member of professions such as airline pilot, doctor, and attorney. 프랭크 Abagnale 주니어, 누가 불량 수표를 쓴 거짓으로 항공사의 조종사, 의사 등 전문직의 자격을 갖춘 회원으로 자신을 표현, 그리고 변호사가 미국 사기꾼. The film Catch Me If You Can is based on his life. 필름을 잡아 나 자신의 인생을 기반으로 할 수 있으면.
• Eddie Antar , founder of Crazy Eddie , who has about $1 billion worth of judgments against him stemming from fraudulent accounting practices at that company. 에디 Antar, 미친 에디, 사람에 대한 10 억 달러의 판단 그를 상대로 분식 회계 관행에서 회사의 가치 형태소 분석했다의 설립자.
• Cassie Chadwick , who pretended to be Andrew Carnegie 's daughter to get loans. 캐시 채드윅, 누가 앤드류 카네기 '대출을 딸 수 척.
• Charles Dawson , an amateur British archeologist who claimed to have found the Piltdown man . 찰스 도슨, 누가 Piltdown 사람을 발견했다고 주장 아마추어 영국의 고고학자.
• Marc Dreier , Managing founder of Attorney firm Dreir LLP. 마크 Dreier, 변호사 사무소 Dreir LLP의 설립자 관리. Prosecutors allege that from 2004 through December 2008, He sold approximately $700 million worth of fictitious promissory notes. ^{[ 3 ]} 검찰은 2004 년 2008년 12월을 통해, 그는 약 7 억 달러 가상 어음 상당의 판매 주장하고있다. ^[3]
• Richard Eaton , an English businessman who was business partners with mobster Paul Vario and Jimmy Burke and was involved in the Lufthansa heist . 리차드 이튼, 누가 조폭 폴 Vario과 지미 버크와 비즈니스 파트너 및됐다 루프트한자 도난 사건에 연루 영어 사업. An associate of the Lucchese crime family 루체스 범죄 패밀리의 연관
• Bernard Ebbers , founder of WorldCom , which inflated its asset statements by about $11 billion. 버나드 에버스, 월드컴, 약 110 억 달러에 의해 자산 진술이 비정상적으로의 창립자.
• Ramón Báez Figueroa , banker from the Dominican Republic and former president of Banco Intercontinental. 라몬 바에 즈가 피거 로아, 도미니카 공화국 및 방코 인터 콘티넨탈 전 대통령의 은행원. Sentenced on October 21, 2007 to ten years in prison for a US$2.2 billion fraud case that drove the Caribbean nation into an economic crisis in 2003. 10 월 21 일 미국은 2007 년 감옥에서 10 년간의 2003 년 경제 위기로 몰고 카리브해 국가 22 억달러 사기 사건을 선고했다.
• Martin Frankel is a former US financier , convicted in 2002 of insurance fraud worth $208 million, racketeering and money laundering. 마틴 프랭클 전 미국 금융 2002 년 보험 사기의 2억8백만달러, 갈취와 돈세탁 가치가 유죄 판결을합니다.
• Samuel Israel III (1959)- Former hedge fund manager that ran the former fraudulent Bayou Hedge Fund Group . 사무엘 이스라엘 3 세 (1959 년) - 전 헤지펀드 매니저는 전 사기 베이유 헤지펀드 그룹 도망. He had pretended to faked suicide. 그는 자살을 위장한 척했다.
• Konrad Kujau , German fraudster and forger responsible for the " Hitler Diaries ". 콘라드 Kujau, 독일어, 사기꾼과 위조에 대한 책임 "히틀러의 일기".
• Kenneth Lay , the American businessman who built energy company Enron . 케네스 레이, 누가 에너지 회사 엔론의 내장 미국인 사업가. He was one　 of the highest paid CEOs in America until he was ousted as Chairman and was convicted of fraud and conspiracy, although as a result of his death, his conviction was vacated. ^{[ 4 ]} 그는 미국에서 가장 돈을 최고 경영자의 전까지는 그가 회장으로 축출되었으며했다 사기와 음모의 유죄 판결을 받았다,하지만 자신의 죽음의 결과로, 자신의 신념을 비워했다. ^[4]
• Nick Leeson , English trader whose unsupervised speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank. 닉 리슨, 누구 좀 이른것 투기 거래 베어링 은행의 붕괴 원인 영어 상인.
• James Paul Lewis, Jr. , ran one　 of the biggest ($311 million) and longest running Ponzi Schemes (20 years) in US history. 제임스 폴 루이스, 주니어,) 및 최대 (311,000,000달러의 긴 도망 Ponzi 구성표 미국 역사 (20 년) 실행할 수있습니다.
• Gregor MacGregor , Scottish conman who tried to attract investment and settlers for the non-existent country of Poyais . 그레고르 맥그리거, 누가 투자가 아닌 정착민 - Poyais 국가의 존재 유치하려고 스코틀랜드 conman.
• Bernard L. Madoff , creator of a $65 billion Ponzi scheme - the largest investor fraud ever attributed to a single individual. 버나드 L. 매도 프, 6백50억달러 Ponzi 계획의 창조자 - 적 개인에게 할당 단일 최대 규모의 투자 사기.
• Colleen McCabe , British headmistress who stole £½ million from her school. 콜린 맥케 이브, 누가 그녀를 학교에서 £ ½ 만 훔쳐 영국의 교장 선생님.
• Gaston Means , a professional conman during US President Warren G. Harding 's administration. 가스통 즉, 미국 대통령 워렌 G. 하딩 '행정부 기간 동안 전문 conman.
• Matt the Knife , American born con artist, card cheat and pickpocket who, from the ages of approximately 14 through 21, bilked dozens of casinos, corporations and at least one　 Mafia crime family out of untold sums. 매트 나이프, 미국 사기꾼, 카드 속임수와 소매치기 태어난 사람, 카지노 bilked 수십, 기업과 적어도 하나의 마피아 범죄의 가족은 약 14 세 21을 통해 막대한 액수의 밖에서.
• Michael Milken , "The Junk Bond King". 마이클 밀켄은, "정크 본드 킹".
• Barry Minkow and the ZZZZ Best scam. 배리 Minkow 및 ZZZZ 최고의 사기.
• Michael Monus , founder of Phar-Mor , which ultimately cost its investors more than $1 billion. 마이클 Monus, Phar 설립자 - Mor, 이는 궁극적으로 투자자들이보다 10 억 달러의 비용을.
• F. Bam Morrison , who conned the town of Wetumka, Oklahoma by promoting a circus that never came. F. 빵 모리슨, 누가이 온 적이 서커스를 홍보하여 Wetumka, 오클라호마의 마을들을 속였던거야.
• Lou Pearlman , former boy-band manager indicted by a federal grand jury in Orlando on charges that he schemed to bilk banks out of more than $100 million. 루 Pearlman, 전 아이 밴드 매니저가 미국 올랜도에서 연방 대 배심에 의해 비용이 그보다 1 억 달러의 은행을 사기 위해 계획한에 대한 불구속 기소했다.
• Frederick Emerson Peters , US impersonator who wrote bad checks. 에머슨 프레데릭 피터스, 누가 불량 수표를 쓴 미국 성대 모사.
• Charles Ponzi and the Ponzi scheme . 찰스 Ponzi 및 Ponzi 계획.
• Alves Reis , who forged documents to print 100,000,000 PTE in official escudo banknotes (adjusted for inflation, it would be worth about US$150 million today). 알베리스, 누가 공식 에스쿠도 지폐에서 100,000,000 PTE가 인쇄 (인플레이션에 대한 조정, 그것을 미국에 대한 가치가있을 것이라고 서류를 위조 오늘 억 5000 만 달러).
• Christopher Rocancourt , a Rockefeller impersonator who defrauded Hollywood celebrities. 크리스토퍼 Rocancourt, 누가 할리우드 유명 인사 사기 록펠러 성대 모사.
• John Spano , a struggling businessman who faked massive success in an attempt to buy out the New York Islanders of the NHL . 존 Spano, 누가 시도 뉴욕 제도 NHL의의 사에 엄청난 성공을 위장한 고군분투 사업.
• Robert Allen Stanford (1950)- American businessman head of Stanford Financial Group accused of running a huge $8 billion dollar Ponzi scheme . 로버트 알렌은 스탠포드 대학 (1950) - 스탠포드 파이낸셜 그룹의 미국 사업가 머리에 거대한 80 억 달러 달러 Ponzi 계획을 실행하는 비난.
• John Stonehouse , the last Postmaster-General of the UK and MP who faked his death. 존 Stonehouse, 마지막으로 전자 메일 관리자 - 일반 영국과 MP를 자신의 죽음을 위장.
• Kevin Trudeau (1963) – US writer and billiards promoter, convicted of fraud and larceny in 1991, known for a series of late-night infomercials and his series of books about "Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About". 케빈 트뤼도 (1963) - 미국 작가 당구 발기인, 사기 및 절도는 1991 년, 늦은 밤 정보 광고에 대해서 책을 자신의 일련의 "자연 치료의 일련의 알려진"그들 "에 대하여 알고"당신이 원하지 않는 유죄 판결을 .
• Richard Whitney , who stole from the New York Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund in the 1930s. 리처드 휘트니, 누가 뉴욕 증권 거래소 팁은 기금 1930 년대부터 훔쳐.
• In the UK a report concluded that the total costs of fraud and dealing with fraud in the year 2005-2006 was at least 13.9 Billion GBP. 영국에서는 보고서 사기의 총 비용 및 2005-2006 년 사기와 거래 최소한 139 억 GBP는 결론을 내렸다.