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NEW YORK -- The chairman of a Canadian shipping company was charged with attempting to aid terrorists by sending night-vision goggles and other equipment to the Hezbollah, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Naji Antoine Abi Khalil, 39, of Montreal, who holds dual citizenship in Lebanon and Canada, was charged Monday night and ordered detained by a federal magistrate judge in Manhattan, federal prosecutors said. Prosecutors identified Khalil as chairman and general manager of New Line Services, an import-export company based in Montreal. The night-vision goggles probe grew out of Khalil's dealings with a government confidential witness while he was the subject...

Nobody would trust terrorists in any other situation, but we journalists are such compassionate humanitarians that our brains freeze and our skepticism dissolves when Hezbollah utters two words, "innocent civilians." We believe them because on the ground in Lebanon we have no one else to believe. Of course, they can deal in fiction, lacking free and inquisitive reporters of their own. Nevertheless, nearly every journalist in the world seems willing to repeat Hezbollah figures on civilians killed by Israeli bombs, now one of the big issues of the crisis. But are the numbers accurate? How many of those "civilians" were...