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Pickens County GOP Chair Phillip Bowers — a co-chairman of the rival Gresham Barrett campaign — says that Haley, a Christian who was born to Sikh immigrants, “can’t seem to make up her mind about her faith.”… “It’s not my place to question her faith, but I do question her honesty,” the county party chairman writes. “If anyone finds the truth, please let me know.” “Again, I’m not questioning her faith,” he repeats, “but I absolutely can’t stand a liar.”

Lebanon’s army has begun setting up checkpoints near dozens of illegal border crossings with Syria and Israel in a bid to help prevent arms smuggling in the region, a Lebanese military official said today. The plan is apparently aimed primarily at preventing arms supplies from reaching Hezbollah guerrillas – a key demand of last week’s UN ceasefire resolution that ended 34 days of ferocious fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel repeatedly attacked Lebanon’s roads, bridges and border crossings during the month-long war, saying it wanted to halt the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah, allegedly by Syria and Iran. The military...