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A map recovered from a site in Israel suggests the degree of Hamas planning and intelligence-gathering leading up to Saturday’s surprise attack.  PHOTO:  SOUTH FIRST RESPONDERS Outside the Kfar Aza kibbutz, one of the Israeli communities that suffered casualties and hostages in the multifront attack on Saturday.   HASSAN ESLAIAH/ASSOCIATED PRESS By  David S. Cloud Follow ,  Anat Peled  and  Dov Lieber Follow Updated Oct. 12, 2023 5:14 pm ET SHARE TEXT Listen to article Length (6 minutes) Explore Audio Center TEL AVIV—Hamas militants who  flooded into southern Israel from Gaza last weekend  carried detailed maps of the towns and military bases that they targeted. Some also carried tactical guides identifying weak spots on Israeli army armored vehicles. The documents, written in Arabic, were recovered from the sites of attacks or bodies of dead Hamas fighters by Israeli civilians, soldiers and emergency personnel and seen by The Wall Street Journal. Authorities are examining the trove, I

Former US ambassador arrested in Florida, accused of serving as Cuban agent, source posted at 17:21:19 UTC   via   abcnews.go.com MIAMI -- A former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation, accused of secretly serving as an agent of Cuba’s government, The Associated Press has learned. Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in Miami on Friday on a criminal complaint and more details about the case are expected to be made public at a court appearance Monday, said two people who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss an ongoing federal investigation. One of the people said the Justice Department case accuses Rocha of working to promote the Cuban government’s interests. Federal law requires people doing the political bidding of a foreign government or entity inside the U.S. to register with the Justice Department, which in recent years has stepped up its crimin