Word: accountably
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...longer a relevant power. Sharon thinks Arafat is beyond redemption. He has made clear that his preference would be to kill or exile him. However, he promised President Bush he would not do the former, and he feels bound by the pledge, even though, by his own account, he regrets making it. Last week, continuing to operate on recent advice from security advisers who say Arafat would make more trouble abroad than at home, Sharon refrained from expelling the Palestinian leader. And so the Israeli leader was left with the choice of humiliating his counterpart, an option with which...
...concerns about possible money laundering that got regulators so interested in Tyco. In January the New York State banking department alerted the Manhattan D.A.'s office that a wire transfer of almost $4 million had been made from a Tyco bank account in Pittsburgh, Pa., to the New York City bank account of art dealer Alexander Apsis, who in turn moved much of the money to an account in the Bahamas. The D.A. had briefly investigated Tyco three years ago, looking into whether a Tyco director had fraudulently sold his $2.5 million Florida home to the company's general counsel...
...Until early this year, according to an account given by the suspects during questioning, the three Saudis had been in Afghanistan, and they survived the heavy U.S. bombardment of Tora Bora. Like hundreds of other Bin Laden followers, they fled into Pakistan, where an Al Qaeda commander instructed them to disperse to countries where they could form sleeper cells without arousing suspicions. With their native Saudi Arabia on high alert for returning terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks, Morocco was a natural choice for Al Tbaiti and Alissiri: Both had married Moroccan women. Al Tbaiti's young bride...
...Details, of course, are sketchy, but it appears that Padilla converted to Islam after a prison spell in Florida, and eventually made his way to Afghanistan or Pakistan to make common cause with al-Qaeda. According to the government's account, he approached them with the idea of detonating a "dirty bomb" in a U.S. city, and they obliged by teaching him to wire a bomb. The impression, in the government's own account, is of a former street hoodlum desperate to join a new gang - and being kept at arm's length. An outsider taught to build a bomb...
...people in the North who lost two or three or even seven children in the "American war," as they call it, will greet American tourists as long-lost friends. This gift for forgiveness and pragmatism is all the more impressive, David Lamb suggests in his humane and often moving account, Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns (PublicAffairs; 274 pages), when you recall that 1 in every 10 Vietnamese was wounded or killed in the war against America. If the U.S. had suffered a proportional number of casualties, it would have seen 27 million people dead...