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...forces have borrowed heavily from that old American innovation. Now, before you send off enraged e-mail, I'm not suggesting any moral equivalence between the Minutemen and Saddam's thugs. But it is surprising that both the Pentagon and the American public seem to have been taken aback by the Iraqis' hit-and-run attacks...
...forces have borrowed heavily from that old American innovation. Now, before you send off enraged e-mail, I'm not suggesting any moral equivalence between the Minutemen and Saddam's thugs. But it is surprising that both the Pentagon and the American public seem to have been taken aback by the Iraqis' hit-and-run attacks...
...People usually are really taken aback by it,” she says. “I think some of them think there might be something wrong with...
...Meanwhile, raids last month in Edinburgh and London netted eight further Algerian terrorist suspects, while two Algerians arrested 16 months ago in Leicester - the first suspects to be charged in Britain with direct links to al-Qaeda - were due again in court this month. Britons were taken aback by the notion of a broad, alleged Algerian network, since Britain, unlike France, has no colonial links with Algeria and hosts a relatively small number of its citizens among its population of 2 million Muslims. It would not be a surprise, however, to Mohammed Sekkoum, chairman of the London-based Algerian Refugee...
...Republican Senator Warren Rudman to head the inquiry, but the White House is unlikely to tap him. Sources tell TIME that one of the Administration's top choices to replace Kissinger is another Republican veteran, David M. Abshire, ambassador to nato during the Reagan years. The White House, taken aback by Kissinger's abdication, has to make sure this choice sticks. --By Romesh Ratnesar, Matthew Cooper and Michael Weisskopf