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		<title>Pope of the Americas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habemus Papam Franciscum came the tweet, the first official word from the @Pontifex account, after the white smoke curled from the copper chimney watched by hundreds of thousands in St. Peter’s Square, by millions and millions on every imaginable 21st century technology around the world. And there it was, old and new, past and present, the arrival of a Pope who for the first time hails from “the most unequal part of the world,” as he once called Latin America, who cooked his own dinners and rode the bus and took his regnal name from the sainted champion of the least among us. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, brings to the throne of St. Peter a concern about the “spiritual sickness” that can afflict a church if it seems to care more for its priests than its people. “I want you to bless me,” he told the crowd, before it was his turn to bless them. He noted that his brother Cardinals had gone “to the end of the earth” to find the new Bishop of Rome. But there was a kind of subtle, rounded—perhaps divine—justice to it all. And by the time his brief debut was over, it was already clear that a profound change had occurred in an institution famously resistant to it. The accession of a new Pope is always cause for wonderment—if only because the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church has managed to survive more trials than almost any other kingdom in history. No other institution can claim to have withstood Attila the Hun, the ambitions of the Habsburgs, the Ottoman Turks, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler, in addition to Stalin and his successors. Every new Pope faces fresh crisis and challenges. And in the 21st century, he does so at the head of a spiritual empire that touches more than 1.2 billion souls and whose influence crosses borders and contends with other great powers. Stefano Dal Pozzolo / Contrasto / Redux (PHOTOS: Pope and Circumstance: the Road to the Papacy) Francis, the first New<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75116&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Habemus Papam: Francis, the First Pope from the Western Hemisphere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jorge Mario Bergoglio almost made history eight years ago. According to several accounts, he had been the only real contender against Joseph Ratzinger in the first round of balloting that led to the election of the German as Pope Benedict XVI in April 2005. That itself was history: Ratzinger became the second consecutive non-Italian as head of the Roman Catholic Church. Now Bergoglio has now made history twice over with his own election as Pope Francis. The Argentine is the first man from the Western Hemisphere to become Pontiff. And, as the son of Italian immigrants, he has won the Papacy back in the land of his ancestry. In his first address, the traditional Urbi et Orbi—to the city and the world—he chided his brother Cardinals for going “to the end of the earth” to find the new Bishop of Rome. But there was a kind of subtle, rounded—perhaps divine—justice to it all. Photograph by Stefano Dal Pozzolo–Contrasto/Redux Bergoglio was a surprise. Every 21st century technology seemed to have been focused on the chimney above the Sistine Chapel—a system put in place in 1939 that spouted smoke signals to communicate its message. And new and old media was bandying about other: the Cardinal of Milan who had seemed to have been promoted quickly through important offices by the retired Benedict XVI; and the Cardinal of Sao Paulo in Brazil, a favorite among the bureaucrats of the curia. Even another Argentine Cardinal was more favored than Bergoglio. But as the old saying goes, he who enters the conclave a Pope, leaves it a Cardinal. Everyone had overlooked Bergoglio, 76, believing he was too far along in years and that his moment had passed. It has only just begun. (WATCH: TIME Video: How Pope Francis Was Elected ) The accession of a new Pope is always cause for wonderment—if only because the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church has managed to survive more vicissitudes than almost any other kingdom in history. No other institution can claim to have withstood Attila the Hun, the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74997&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Popeology 101: How to Interpret the Sistine Chapel Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: March 13, 2013, 2:15 p.m. EDT When a plume of white smoke emerged from the Vatican&#8217;s chimney around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday evening, the masses gathered in St. Peter&#8217;s Square erupted in cheers. But what happens now? Once the new Pope is elected, he will be led to the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, just above the main door of Baroque architectural masterpiece. On that so-called Loggia of the Blessings, Cardinal Proto-Deacon Jean-Louis Tauran of France will announce in Latin: “Habemus Papam!”, pronounce the given name of the elected Pontiff and declare the name he has chosen under which to reign. The Vicar of Christ and the leader of the Roman Catholic Church will then emerge and give his first traditional Urbi et Orbi — the papal blessing saluting and praying for the city of Rome and the wider world. The personality of the Pope and his biography will be paramount in judging what to expect from his rule over a spiritual empire that touches more than 1 billion souls and whose influence crosses borders and contends against other principalities and powers. But there is much to be gleaned about how the new Pope will administer his kingdom from what went into the Sistine Chapel with the 115 Cardinal electors charged with discerning God’s will for the leadership of the church. As the absolute ruler of the Roman Catholic Church, a Pope can do as he pleases. Yet, the ideological and political position he occupied among his fellow princes of the church will stamp his reign from the get-go. The ideology may have already been preordained since, before his abdication, Pope Benedict XVI basically packed the College of Cardinals with prelates who apparently agreed with his conservative agenda. As Pope Emeritus, his presence will also be a constant reminder to the new Pontiff not to stray too far from the Benedictine prescriptions — if only not to embarrass the retired ruler of the church living in the Vatican garden. (MORE: Benedict XVI&#8217;s Second Act) Still, the politics of the Holy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74428&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI: Is It Health? Or Politics? Or Both?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/11/the-resignation-of-pope-benedict-xvi-is-it-health-or-politics-or-both/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement that he would step down at the end of the month is stunning but not surprising for a man with experience running a critical sector of the Vatican hierarchy while his predecessor John Paul II lingered in extremis as absolute ruler of a spiritual empire of a billion living souls. The last years of John Paul II, still much admired since his death on April 2, 2005, were excruciating for the Curia, as the organization’s chief decisionmaker slowly but publicly withered away in the throes of what was believed to be Parkinson’s disease. Many of Benedict’s pronouncements over the past eight years or so — including a few made while he was yet Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — have led observers to believe he was considering resignation rather than allowing the Catholic Church to go through the ordeal again. As cited by Thomas Reese in the National Catholic Reporter, Benedict had already emphatically concluded that a Pope may resign if, as the Pontiff said in Light of the World, his wide-ranging 2010 interview with the journalist Peter Seewald, &#8220;he is no longer physically, psychologically and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.&#8221; But Benedict added, &#8220;One can resign at a peaceful moment or when one simply cannot go on. But one must not run away from danger and say someone else should do it.&#8221; (MORE: Pope Benedict XVI to Resign, Citing &#8216;Advanced Age&#8217;) The resignation of a Pope is not unprecedented. Gregory XII resigned in 1415 in an act that would restore the unity of the Catholic Church, which had been fractured by schism for nearly 70 years. Gregory, who would live on for two more years, would see the election of his replacement in the orthodox line of succession to Saint Peter. Unless Pope Benedict XVI’s health deteriorates rapidly — he cited it as his reason for stepping down at the end of February — he too will see<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68330&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patriot Missiles Arrive in Turkey: How They Affect the Syria Equation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Zalewski / Gaziantep, Turkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barely 40 miles from the Syrian border, Gaziantep, a booming Turkish city of 1.3 million people, seems worlds removed from the conflict engulfing its southern neighbor. Yet, signs of the war raging next door are not hard to find. The local economy, although still buoyant, is losing some of its spark. Exports to Syria have been halved since 2010, and are continuing to fall. A few years ago, many of the Syrians arriving in Gaziantep were wealthy traders from Aleppo, less than two hours by car. Now, most are refugees, thousands of whom are unable or unwilling to settle in Turkish camps by the border. Locals might occasionally grumble about the impact of the influx on rent prices, but most remain sympathetic to the Syrians fleeing the regime of President Bashar Assad. Family and religious ties &#8212; like the Syrian newcomers, the vast majority are Sunni Muslims &#8212; are one reason why. In recent weeks, NATO&#8217;s deployment of Patriot missile batteries along Turkey&#8217;s 560-mile border with Syria &#8211; in response to a formal Turkish request last November &#8212; has sparked protests across the country. Given the depth of anti-American sentiment in Turkey, it was hardly surprising that small demonstrations also took place in Gaziantep, where a contingent of U.S. Patriots arrived in January. Still, at least here, the deployment seems to have met with muted approval. Ever since Syrian artillery shells began straying into Turkey last fall, and especially since one of these claimed the lives of five people in the border town of Akçakale, local concerns about a large-scale attack have increased, says Gökhan Bacik, a professor at Gaziantep&#8217;s Zirve University. The Patriots, he says, &#8220;are observed here as a mechanism to appease those feelings.&#8221; Once up and running, NATO officials say, the total of six batteries &#8212; two each sent by Germany, the Netherlands and the U.S. &#8212; and manned by roughly 1,200 alliance troops will protect up to 3.5 million people from any potential missile threat. The Dutch and German batteries, based 100 miles west and 60 miles north of the Syrian border, respectively, were declared active<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=66737&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Feud Between Biblical Archaeologists Goes to Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Old City of Jerusalem, no one ever went broke underestimating the proof required to help the faithful suspend disbelief — or in a modern twist, allow the skeptical to bolster their heterodoxy. A million-dollar lawsuit in Israel has become the latest vehicle in the unending quest to redefine faith as the substance of things seen. Simcha Jacobovici, a Canadian documentary maker specializing in biblical archaeology, is suing a retired scientist and former archaeological museum curator named Joe Zias, who has accused him of publicizing scientifically dubious theories. Many of Jacobovici’s documentaries have focused on artifacts that purport to reveal new interpretations of early Christianity, including the notion that the remains of Jesus and his family were buried in a tomb underneath modern-day Jerusalem. Jacobovici claims that Zias’ criticisms are libelous and have cost him television contracts and money. The dusty world of biblical archaeology directly affects — not to say inspires — the hopes and dreams of millions of faithful people who might buy purported relics or tune in to television shows about them. And, so, there has arisen around it a thriving industry in Jesus-era coins and lamps, and pre-Christian Judaica such as seals and seal impressions from the era of the biblical kings — and in books and movies about them. (MORE: Were Nails from Caiaphas&#8217; Tomb Used to Crucify Jesus?) The son of Romanian holocaust survivors, Jacobovici is an Emmy-winning journalist who has produced several films in the past decade about new finds that supposedly illuminate the true history of early Christianity. Jacobovici’s first foray into the biblical-documentary genre was a 2002 film James, Brother of Jesus that introduced the world to the James ossuary, a bone box with an ancient Aramaic inscription translated as James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus. Even as Jacobovici&#8217;s film characterized the ossuary as an authentic archaeological discovery, scholars and the Israeli authorities claimed the inscription as a fake. Discovery Channel aired the film but, in 2008, it put the James ossuary on its list of the top 10<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=66203&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spain Is Disgusted With Corruption But Can Anything Be Done About It?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/25/spain-is-disgusted-with-corruption-but-can-anything-be-done-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Abend</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“¡Basta!” When yet another massive corruption scandal broke in Spain last week, the headline of the Jan. 19 edition of the Barcelona-based newspaper El Periódico contained just that one word: “Enough!” It was echoed a few days later by a paper at the opposite end of the political spectrum, the monarchist ABC: “Spaniards say enough.” And certainly this particular case, which has conjured the edifying spectacle of high-ranking officials receiving envelopes of cash even while they imposed austerity measures on the rest of the population, seems particularly egregious. But in a country that has long accepted kickbacks as the price of doing business, it’s worth asking: What will it take before Spain does something about its corruption problem? The latest scandal broke on Jan. 16, when Swiss officials reported that they had found accounts containing 22 million euros registered to Luis Bárcenas, former treasurer of Spain’s ruling Popular Party. Appointed by PP leader Mariano Rajoy in 2008, Bárcenas was forced to resign a year later for his possible role in another major corruption case, called Gürtel, and it was not immediately clear how he might have amassed that amount legally. Bárcenas has denied any wrong doing and said he was “holding the amount for investors,” though in a conversation that was wiretapped by police during the Gürtel investigation, an unidentified man claims he bribed Bárcenas for around 6 million euros. (MORE: Why Catalonia Isn’t Likely to Leave Spain Anytime Soon) There are allegations that Bárcenas didn’t keep the money for himself. On Jan. 21, a former member of parliament for the PP, Jorge Trías, published an article in Spain’s leading newspaper, El País, averring that Bárcenas and others regularly handed out envelopes containing as much as 10,000 euros in cash to other high-ranking Popular Party officials. “Outside of whatever the prosecutors and judges do,” wrote Trías, “the Popular Party must explain in complete detail what means it has used to finance itself.” Trías could well be understating the problem. Earlier this week, El Mundo newspaper published an article suggesting that many<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=65765&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy Comes to Syrians — in a Turkish Refugee Camp</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/21/democracy-comes-to-syrians-in-a-turkish-refugee-camp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Zalewski / Kilis, Turkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small crowds of men and women swelled near the polling stations. An older woman, having just dipped her finger in red ink, posed for the cameras. Outside, a group of young men and children hopped around to the beat of a drum, singing, chanting and bidding Syria’s President, Bashar Assad, to burn in hell. For most of the 14,000 Syrians housed in Turkey’s Oncupinar refugee camp, the voting on Thursday was the first free election in living memory. The offices at stake — camp leaders and administrative council members — would not exactly give the winners uncontested authority or prestige. And the controversy about prices at the local supermarket hardly made for a burning electoral issue. Still, the enthusiasm was palpable. “This is real democracy,” says Abdulaziz Kattash, pointing toward the voting booth. Kattash, a bear of a man, his massive face framed by a gray, neatly cropped beard and a black cotton hat, had been a truck driver in Jisr al-Shugur, about 19 km south of the border. He fled to Turkey last year. “Voting wasn&#8217;t secret in Syria,” he explains. “When I voted for President, they gave me a list of my family members, 68 names. I checked. Some of the people on the list were already dead.” Kattash had to cast votes in the name of all 68. “Of course, we knew that it was wrong, but we were afraid to say it.” For Muhammad Nizar al-Nadjar’s clan, which hails from Marea, less than an hour’s drive from Aleppo, there was no need at all to go to the polls when the Assad regime scheduled a vote. Around election time, recalls al-Nadjar, key members of his clan would receive a visit from envoys of the notorious al-Berri tribe, who would offer them cash for votes. “One of the al-Berri people would take our IDs, hundreds of them, and vote on our behalf.” There was little to do but comply. “People feared for their children and for their jobs,” al-Nadjar explains. (MORE: As Syrians Freeze, Diplomacy Is at a Standstill)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=64703&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Swiss Difference: A Gun Culture That Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Helena Bachmann / Geneva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as the gun-control debate rises again in the U.S. in the aftermath of the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the gun-loving Swiss are not about to lay down their arms. Guns are ubiquitous in this neutral nation, with sharpshooting considered a fun and wholesome recreational activity for people of all ages. Even though Switzerland has not been involved in an armed conflict since a standoff between Catholics and Protestants in 1847, the Swiss are very serious not only about their right to own weapons but also to carry them around in public. Because of this general acceptance and even pride in gun ownership, nobody bats an eye at the sight of a civilian riding a bus, bike or motorcycle to the shooting range, with a rifle slung across the shoulder. (MORE: The World&#8217;s Best &#8212; and Worst &#8212; Places to Live) “We will never change our attitude about the responsible use of weapons by law-abiding citizens,” says Hermann Suter, vice president of Pro-Tell, the country’s gun lobby, named after legendary apple shooter William Tell, who used a crossbow to target enemies long before firearms were invented. Switzerland trails behind only the U.S, Yemen and Serbia in the number of guns per capita; between 2.3 million and 4.5 million military and private firearms are estimated to be in circulation in a country of only 8 million people. Yet, despite the prevalence of guns, the violent-crime rate is low: government figures show about 0.5 gun homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2010. By comparison, the U.S rate in the same year was about 5 firearm killings per 100,000 people, according to a 2011 U.N. report. Unlike some other heavily armed nations, Switzerland’s gun ownership is deeply rooted in a sense of patriotic duty and national identity. Weapons are kept at home because of the long-held belief that enemies could invade tiny Switzerland quickly, so every soldier had to be able to fight his way to his regiment&#8217;s assembly point. (Switzerland was at risk of being invaded by Germany during World War II but<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60493&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Journalists at Risk: How an NBC Correspondent Emerged from Syrian Captivity</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/18/journalists-at-risk-how-an-nbc-correspondent-emerged-from-syrian-captivity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED War reporting is not a science. Every foray into a battleground requires basic preparation — for the most part. But the chemistry of each war zone is different and fluid. In addition to training, instinct often plays a huge part in keeping a reporter out of harm’s way. And then there’s luck — both good and bad. All of that has been reinforced by the experience of a veteran journalist who vanished for several days while on assignment in northern Syria. NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and his crew emerged on Tuesday morning after being held in blindfolded captivity by an armed group since early Thursday morning. Engel and company were freed in a firefight that ensued when their captors tried to transport them on Monday through a checkpoint run by the Ahrar al-Sham rebel brigade, which is under the antiregime Free Syrian Army umbrella. Two of the captors died in the incident but the NBC crew was unharmed. That is good news indeed in a region that has become increasingly dangerous for journalists as hostility increases not only from the Damascus regime but from its opponents as well. Interviewed on his network, Engel said he and his crew were subjected to psychological torture with threats of execution. He also said the gang that held him talked openly of loyalty to the regime of President Bashar Assad. The group has not been identified. The region is rife with various militias, ranging from secular defectors from the Syrian army to their Islamist allies to jihadis to groups with no firm affiliation as well as purely criminal organizations intent on theft or profit via ransom. (PHOTOS: The Syrian Civil War: Photographs by Alessio Romenzi) As news director of TIME, I have had to keep track of the permeability of the Syrian border ever since the revolt against Assad began turning into a civil war. The fall of several Syrian border posts with Turkey over the summer made it easier for journalists to legally cross into northern Syria, but the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60230&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Germany Seeks to Ban a Far-Right Party</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/14/germany-seeks-to-ban-a-far-right-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Levitin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A decade after trying&#8211;and failing&#8211;to impose a constitutional ban on the far right Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands, the National Democratic Party, Germany is attempting to outlaw it again. But this time lawmakers are confident they&#8217;ll succeed. Germany&#8217;s 16 state governors voted unanimously on Dec. 6 to seek a ban, and on Dec. 14 the country&#8217;s upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat, agreed to formally ask the Constitutional Court to rule the NPD an illegal political party. &#8220;We think it&#8217;s the right time politically,&#8221; says Dietmar Woidke, a Social Democratic Party lawmaker in Brandenburg&#8217;s state parliament, speaking ahead of the vote. The falling support of the NPD might seem to suggest otherwise. From its heyday in the 1969 election when the NPD polled at 4.3% of the national vote, its support slipped to 1.8% in the 2009 national elections. For the past decade, membership has been estimated at between 5,000 to 7,000, according to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany&#8217;s domestic intelligence agency. But there is another reason for the sense of urgency: revelations last year of a seven-year-long killing spree, allegedly by a neo-Nazi terror cell, that have sharpened fears of letting the far right practice politics in a country still grappling with its history of fascism. In November 2011, police in the city of Eisenach in eastern Germany found the bodies of Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boehnhardt in a camper van following a botched bank robbery and the pair&#8217;s apparent suicide pact. The only known surviving member, Beate Zschaepe, turned herself in to police after attempting to burn down the flat she shared with Boehnhardt and Mundlos, according to Saxony police officials. Police officials said they found evidence in the van and the apartment linking the trio to the murders of eight Turkish men and one Greek man between 2000 and 2006. Zschaepe was charged last month as an accomplice to multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, as well as arson and membership in a terrorist organization, according to federal prosecutors. The revelations have<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=59817&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Russian Science Be Stunted by Putin’s Fear of Espionage?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/13/will-russian-science-be-stunted-by-putins-fear-of-espionage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Shuster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Igor Sutyagin, the convicted Russian spy, still has a neat folder with the secrets he allegedly sold to the CIA. In London the other day, when we met at the military think tank where he works, he laid them out for me like tarot cards across a table. They were mostly newspaper clippings, along with copies of Russian military journals, their ink faded and edges worn thin. In the mid-1990s, two Americans paid him to collect such clippings in search of tidbits about the Russian military, and to supplement his tiny academic salary, he was glad to accept the work. But amid the spy craze that has become state policy in Russia, this side job was enough to convict Sutyagin for espionage in 2004. He spent 11 years in prison for it. To this day, his name is shorthand in Russia&#8217;s scientific community for a common warning — a kind of spook story about how even the most straightforward work with foreigners can get you branded a spy. There have been a handful of similar cases over the past decade, but Sutyagin&#8217;s was the first and remains the most famous. Staring down at his file of secrets, he sums up his lesson like this: &#8220;Think 10 times before working with any foreigners,&#8221; he says. &#8220;You might end up in prison.&#8221; (PHOTOS: Protesters Rally in Opposition to Vladimir Putin’s Rule) But if this warning is heeded by Russia&#8217;s scientists, Sutyagin admits that it would amount to a death sentence for their research. (Historically, Russian scientists and engineers have a tremendous record; for example, shaming the U.S. in 1957 by launching Sputnik, the first man-made satellite.) Today, no field of research can thrive without international collaboration, peer review and academic conferences. Yet all these things have been subordinated in Russia to the cause of catching spies — real or imagined. Last month, President Vladimir Putin, himself a former spymaster, signed a law that puts many scientists at risk of committing treason if they so much as &#8220;consult&#8221; with foreigners on their research. That<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=59560&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Time for Mischief: Will Monti’s Departure Mean Berlusconi’s Return?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/10/a-time-for-mischief-will-montis-departure-mean-berlusconis-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Faris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reaction to the news from Italy — that Prime Minister Mario Monti will soon step down to make way for early elections featuring the possible return of Silvio Berlusconi — has been nearly unanimously negative and, in some quarters, uncharacteristically vocal. &#8220;Worried about the resignation of Italian PM Mario Monti,&#8221; wrote Finland’s Minster for European Affairs, Alexander Stubb, in a tweet on Sunday morning. &#8220;I think he is one of the best European leaders we have.&#8221; Martin Schulz, a German politician whom Berlusconi once likened to a concentration-camp guard, was more direct. &#8220;Europe needs stability,&#8221; he said, in an interview with the Italian news agency ANSA. &#8220;And Mr. Berlusconi is the opposite of stability.&#8221; Even Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, head of the Italian Bishops&#8217; Conference, expressed his worries. &#8220;We can&#8217;t allow a year of sacrifices to be ruined,&#8221; he said, referring to painful austerity measures Monti has introduced in order regain the confidence of the markets. &#8220;What&#8217;s stunning is the irresponsibility of those who think of their own interests while the house is still burning.&#8221; By Monday evening, the markets had weighed in as well, with the Milan Stock Exchange down 2.2% at the close of trading. (VIDEO: Interview with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti) The crisis kicked off at the end of last week, when Berlusconi used a visit to the practice grounds of his soccer team, A.C. Milan, to announce he would be standing as a candidate for Prime Minister. The next day, his allies in Parliament partially withdrew their support of Monti, abstaining on a crucial vote. The move wasn&#8217;t enough to bring the government down on its own, but it promised months of deadlock. The ground seemed laid for a long winter of down-to-the-wire votes, with Berlusconi forcing his opponents to take ownership of Monti&#8217;s often unpopular proposals, each time registering his disapproval but allowing the government to limp on. Instead, on Saturday evening, Monti announced he wouldn&#8217;t wait for a formal loss of support and handed in his resignation, effective on the passage of a budget<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=58905&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Thought Benghazi Was Bad, Watch Syria</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/07/if-you-thought-benghazi-was-bad-watch-syria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert B. Baer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cat&#8217;s out of the bag. During Libya&#8216;s rebellion, the White House OK’ed the arming of rebels fighting the Gaddafi regime to Arab partners in the Gulf, and rumors have abounded ever since over the identity of some of the recipients of weapons sent by U.S. allies. Now, a story in the Wednesday&#8217;s New York Times claims to have confirmed rumors that some of the arms supplied by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates ended up in the hands of Libyan Salafi groups. There&#8217;s no evidence these arms were actually used in the attack on the Benghazi consulate on Sept. 11, but the Times report will fuel speculation. It may also help explain why the Obama Administration has been dancing around the Benghazi incident as if were a grenade with the pin pulled. It seems perfectly possible to me that some weapons sent from the Gulf could have found their way to Ansar al-Sharia, the group currently blamed for the Benghazi attack. That creates a problem for the White House. If such a link surfaces, the Obama Administration may try to blame Gulf Allies. Those countries, in turn, can be expected to say the White House ignored warnings the weapons might fall into the wrong hands. (PHOTOS: Syria’s Slow-Motion, Bloody Civil War) The intelligence services of the Gulf countries are not capable of directly orchestrating large-scale covert action programs, and in particular, large-scale arms transfers. Because of their limited capacity, they themselves are obliged to outsource the process, which, as it turns out, means handing money and arms to Salafi groups headquartered in the Gulf. Those Salafis are more than happy to take the money, and to use it to arm allied fighters in distant lands. The key question, though is this: Why did the Administration think that outsourcing covert action to the Gulf Arabs would have a better outcome in the Arab Spring than was the case the last time the United States outsourced covert action to them? That would be when the Reagan Administration armed Afghan jihadists fighting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=58596&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Iran and Pakistan Want from the Afghans: Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 02:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mujib Mashal / Kabul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a vast, empty desert as a backdrop, the militants recorded the execution of Khan Wali on video. As someone held a camera, the others encircled the condemned man to read out his sentence. “This is not brutality — this is justice,” declared one of the executioners, who sported a black turban and a shaggy beard. “I swear to God that killing him with an 82-mm mortar is not enough. But the rest of our mujahedin would not agree on my recommendation — to kill him in a way that all can take part in the act.” And so it was decided to shoot Khan Wali with the 82-mm mortar. They forced him to kneel 36 m away from the portable cannon, a type often used in small battles in the war-torn country. A militant positioned behind the weapon then set it off; a massive thumping sound was followed by celebratory cries of Allahu akbar — God is great. “Be careful, don’t get any blood on your clothes,” said one voice as the other men, after jubilantly hugging one another, rushed to poke at Khan Wali’s flesh splattered on the ground. “I enjoyed this very much,” said one. (PHOTOS: Afghanistan Now) What was Khan Wali’s crime? He was protecting one of Afghanistan’s most important resources: water. Khan Wali led a 60-man semiofficial militia tasked with defending the Machalgho dam in eastern Paktia province. Already two years behind schedule because of security concerns, the dam would irrigate about 16,000 hectares of land and produce 800 KW of electricity once completed. The government had pledged that if Khan Wali held his ground for two months, he and his men would receive weapons and cash. But Khan Wali lasted only 20 days into the mission. His remains were recovered eight days after his savage execution, his nephew Agha Jan told TIME. His upper body was completely in pieces. “We recognized him from the tattoo he had and the shoes he had been wearing — his name was tattooed on his hand since childhood.” The video of the brutal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=57543&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After the Power Play in Egypt: Morsi and the Islamists vs. Everyone Else</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashraf Khalil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday afternoon&#8217;s broadcast of the al-Jazeera Arabic news channel presented a tableau that might well encapsulate the state of modern Egypt. On one side of the split screen, President Mohamed Morsi spoke before thousands of cheering supporters outside the presidential palace. &#8220;Don&#8217;t be worried,&#8221; he said, standing in front a backdrop of soaring birds. &#8220;Let&#8217;s move together into a new phase.&#8221; Meanwhile, the other half of the screen showed tear-gas canisters arcing into the ranks of the thousands of protesters in Tahrir Square demonstrating against Morsi and chanting many of the same slogans they chanted against Hosni Mubarak nearly two years earlier. (MORE: Morsi’s Gaza Challenge: How New Can the New Egypt Afford to Be?) The latest flashpoint in Egypt&#8217;s terminally messy postrevolutionary period was Morsi&#8217;s stunning Thanksgiving-night constitutional decree that granted himself sweeping and unchecked authority for the next several months and greatly limited the powers of Egypt&#8217;s judiciary. According to the decree, Egypt&#8217;s judges no longer have the power to dissolve the Constituent Assembly — effectively killing an in-progress court case that could have disbanded the body drafting the new constitution. That Constituent Assembly, via the decree, now has an extra two months to finish its work, potentially extending the process into early 2013 and subsequent parliamentary elections into the year. Public prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmoud, whom Morsi tried and failed to fire earlier this year, is finally out via the retroactive creation of term limits on his time in power. Most disturbingly, the decree states that any presidential decisions made since Morsi took office in June and until there is a new elected parliament and an approved constitution &#8220;are final and binding and cannot be appealed by any way or to any entity.&#8221; It also includes the following simple, yet ominous, article: &#8220;The President may take the necessary actions and measures to protect the country and the goals of the revolution.&#8221; (Here is an English-language version of Morsi’s decree.) (PHOTOS: A New Gaza War: Israel and Palestinian Militants Trade Fire) Egypt&#8217;s fractured political arena essentially exploded at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=56130&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Murder of Five American Nuns Will Go Unavenged</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/31/why-the-murder-of-five-american-nuns-will-go-unavenged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Johnny Dwyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Taylor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The five women were from small-town America but chose to live in the midst of one of West Africa&#8217;s most brutal civil wars. Each belonged to the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a St. Louis–based Catholic order; each had volunteered to live in Liberia, not only as missionaries but also as desperately needed relief workers. In 1993, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch profiled the nuns. Sister Barbara Muttra, the eldest of the group at 69, ministered to refugees during the height of the Vietnam War before moving to Liberia in the early 1970s. Sister Mary Joel Kolmer, 58, was a cancer survivor who returned to Liberia after surgery to remove a tumor. Sister Agnes Mueller, 62, was both a trained nurse and a theologian who taught aspirant nuns at the sisters&#8217; convent. Sister Shirley Kolmer, 61, who served as a high school principal in Monrovia, advocated forcefully &#8212; and successfully &#8212; for the nuns&#8217; return to Liberia after fighting between Charles Taylor&#8217;s rebels and government troops forced the nuns to flee in 1990. And Sister Kathleen McGuire, 54, the only sister who was new to Liberia, once made a pilgrimage to the graves of five American nuns murdered in El Salvador in 1980. It would be a tragedy the five nuns in Liberia would share, slaughtered 20 years ago last week by men believed to be loyal to Taylor. Their deaths have gone unpunished, but not for lack of evidence. Investigators in Liberia and the U.S. identified some of the individuals they believed responsible, but for reasons both political and legal, it is unlikely that anyone will ever be brought to justice. The killings remain among the darkest episodes of the war for both Liberians and Americans. In October 1992, Taylor launched the most notorious offensive in his bid to take power, a fast-moving, multipronged attack called Operation Octopus. On Oct. 20, 1992, Muttra and Mary Joel Kolmer left their home in Gardnersville, Liberia, to drive a Liberian colleague to his nearby village. They never made it to their destination:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=52581&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico’s Drug Lords Ramp Up Their Arsenals with RPGs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ioan Grillo / Mexico City</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a Mexican SWAT team stopped a stolen Cadillac van in the border city of Piedras Negras, it was not a surprise when they were greeted by a tirade of bullets as the criminals blasted and ran. But after they kicked open the trunk, the officers realized they could have been victims of more catastrophic firepower. The gunmen had been in possession of an arsenal of weapons that included three Soviet-made antitank rockets complete with an RPG-7 shoulder-fired launcher. If the criminals had got a rocket off, they could easily have blown the SWAT vehicle to pieces. RPG-7s can also take out helicopters and were used in the Black Hawk Down episode in Somalia in 1993. The rockets, found on Saturday, are part of an increasingly destructive array of weaponry wielded by Mexican drug cartels, like the feared Zetas, in reaction to attacks on them by police and soldiers. While security forces have taken down several key cartel bosses this year, gunmen have struck back, setting off five car bombs, hundreds of fragmentation grenades and several shoulder-fired rockets. Soldiers even seized one homemade three-ton tank with a revolving gun turret. When Mexican marines on Oct. 7 claimed to have killed Zetas leader Heriberto Lazcano, he was also alleged to be found with an RPG-7. (Lazcano’s corpse was stolen from the morgue, and the Zetas are now believed to be led by his No. 2, Miguel Treviño.) The shoulder-fired rockets cause particular worry because of their range and explosive power. Mexican dignitaries often move in helicopters with the army flying Black Hawks supplied by the U.S. under the Mérida Initiative. “The RPG-7 is a weapon that causes incredible devastation from Iraq to Afghanistan,” says Rachel Stohl, an expert on arms proliferation at the Stimson Center in Washington. “When they fall into the hands of criminal groups, it changes the dynamics and escalates the conflict. Instead of just a gunfight on a street, you have military firepower.” Combatants normally use RPG-7 rockets to target nearby vehicles, but they can reach up to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=51803&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Tahrir: The Vicious Circles in the Square</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/25/dangerous-tahrir-the-vicious-circles-in-the-square/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashraf Khalil / Cairo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past 18 months, I&#8217;ve probably entered Tahrir Square more than 100 times, and I like to think I&#8217;ve developed pretty good instincts about the place. Normally when I think things are going to be dangerous there&#8211;with clashes between protesters and the police or among different sets of protesters&#8211;I can see it coming and I come equipped. Over time, I&#8217;ve developed my Tahrir battle kit: extra tight hiking boots just in case I need to run, no wallet&#8211;just my Egyptian national ID, a small reporters notebook that slips into my back pocket, a bandana and a small bottle of vinegar to deal with teargas exposure. I travel light and inconspicuous; I keep moving and don&#8217;t draw a crowd. A modified version of these guidelines kept me relatively safe for two years of reporting in Iraq as well. The week before last, Tahrir witnessed violent rock-throwing clashes between secularist revolutionary groups opposing President Mohamed Morsy and supporters of Morsy&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood. The previous month saw the area engulfed in battles between rock-throwing youth and riot police as tear gas volleys arced into the square. But last Friday was supposed to be different. The secular Morsy opponents were going to come out in force again, but the Brotherhood&#8211;either due to the bad press they had received from the previous week or because they were distracted by their internal party elections that day&#8211;had pledged to stay away from Tahrir. (MORE: Has Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Staged a Coup Against the Military?) The primary challenges, I thought, would be estimating crowd size and observing group dynamics among the varying factions. My expectations of the day were peaceful enough that I felt fine carrying my laptop into the square and planning to write a dispatch for TIME that evening from a local coffee shop. I even brought my wife with me for a brief tour of the square, something I would never do if there was the tiniest whiff of instability. The last thing I expected that day was to end up in the middle<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=51652&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Egyptians protest against the Muslim Brotherhood and demand for the constitution to be dissolved at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Oct. 19, 2012.</media:title>
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		<title>The Other 9/11: Libyan Guards Recount What Happened in Benghazi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Sotloff / Benghazi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a month after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, U.S. officials have yet to talk to many of the Libyan guards on duty at the American mission on that fatal evening. Fearful of reprisal from the still unknown perpetrators of the attack, the guards have gone into hiding; and their vivid recollections are giving way to a sense of abandonment by the American government, which offered them no protection from the attackers the guards believe want them dead. TIME’s Steven Sotloff has talked to the guards for their account of what happened on the night of Sept. 11, 2012 and the early hours of the day after. Five of the guards were employees of the British security company Blue Mountain, and three others were members of the Islamist-leaning February 17th militia who were tasked with providing diplomatic security for foreign missions. To protect them from possible retribution, their names have been changed. What is clear is that, as others have reported, there was no protest, simply a sudden siege of the compound; U.S. security forces&#8211;including U.S. Marines who arrived at an American safe house outside the consulate grounds&#8211;were overwhelmed and stymied; and that the looters apparently came upon the body of a still-breathing Ambassador Chris Stevens. At around 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2012, the four guards at the compound entrance—Nasser, Ubayd, Abdullah and Anwar&#8211;were casually eating sandwiches and talking about a recent soccer game, trying to pass the time on another monotonous night of watch duty. This one seemed no different from the others before: days and nights staring at the high walls that obscured the luxury villas in the posh Benghazi neighborhood where the American mission was located.  But on this night, the silence of the secluded streets was dramatically shattered. First, from beyond the walls, came the yells of “God is Great!” Nasser went out to investigate. “I immediately heard RPG explosions and saw a large group heading toward us up the road,” he said. Outnumbered and outgunned, the four abandoned their posts, with Nasser<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=50745&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Image: The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames on the night of Sept. 11, 2012.</media:title>
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