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...thing, these activities have led to weapons ending up in the wrong hands. In the aftermath of the operation in Afghanistan in the 1980s, hundreds of Stinger missiles that the CIA used to arm the Afghan rebels remain unaccounted for. The agency has been trying to buy them back but has recovered perhaps only a hundred or so. Among the seven Afghan rebel groups, all the major ones received the agency's shoulder-fired Stingers, which can effectively bring down an aircraft at an altitude of 6,000 to 8,000 ft. or more. Twenty-four...
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a South African psychologist of striking moral intelligence and clarity who served on Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up in the aftermath of apartheid's overthrow to try to deflect retaliation and revenge. Eugene de Kock is a white South African who served for many years as the commander of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads. De Kock is serving a 212-year sentence in a Pretoria prison for crimes against humanity...
...fear, but we must also send our loved ones to war in places like Afghanistan. The terrorists even boosted George W. Bush's popularity and gave his party a victory in the midterm elections. Who knows what kind of President Bush would have been without Sept. 11 and its aftermath? IRAJ NIROOMAND Annweiler, Germany...
...about a North Korean nuclear bomb, because they don’t think North Korea would ever kill other Koreans. Such an attitude reveals volumes about South Korea’s education system, which can’t seem to teach the lessons of the Korean War and its aftermath: millions of Koreans killed in combat, millions more dead in the North from unnecessary famine and inhuman conditions in concentration camps, not to mention the Cold War litany of bombings, assassinations, and infiltrations against South Korean targets. An attitude of solidarity with their fellow Koreans imprisoned in the North...
...aftermath of the Harvard-Yale tailgates, alcohol poisoning sent six students to University Health Services (UHS) and four to area hospitals—nearly resulting in the death of one undergraduate, according to the official Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) report released yesterday...