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Mugabe to ask whites back in land grab U-turn By Peta Thornycroft in Harare (Filed: 09/02/2006) President Robert Mugabe has begun to reverse his "insane" land grab and offer some white farmers the chance to lease back their holdings in Zimbabwe. With the fastest shrinking economy in the world, Mr Mugabe has had to backtrack on six years of chaos and his own determination to rid the country of all white farmers. Robert Mugabe In an orgy of violence, Mr Mugabe seized the land, homes, equipment and infrastructure of about 4,000 white commercial farmers who produced almost half of Zimbabwe's...

HOUSE BILL No. 6239 September 29, 2004, Introduced by Reps. McConico, Hunter, Waters, Phillips, Hood, Smith, Tobocman, Condino, Vagnozzi, O'Neil, Sak, Minore and Hardman and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT: 1 Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the 2 "assault weapon regulation act". 3 Sec. 2. As used in this act: 4 (a) "Assault weapon" means any of the following: 5 (i) A semiautomatic pistol or semiautomatic or pump-action 6 rifle that is capable of accepting a detachable magazine that 7 holds more than...

A Jerusalem source confirmed an exclusive report in Ha'aretz on Monday that Damascus has allowed some 150-200 Qaida operatives to settle in the Palestinian refugee camp Ein Hilwe near Sidon in Lebanon. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source told the Associated Press that the information had come from Israeli and Western intelligence sources. According to the report, by Ha'aretz Defense Correspondent Ze'ev Schiff in Monday's print edition, the group, including senior commanders, arrived from Afghanistan through Damascus, Iran and directly to Lebanon. These Qaida operatives are responsible, among other things, for the latest outbreak of fighting inside the refugee...