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...Clinton's presidential campaign, joking that global warming would fare better as a 2008 campaign issue if the GOP picked a candidate skeptical on the science. Tancredo had recently told the Associated Press that the last work of fiction he read was An Inconvenient Truth by former Vice President Al Gore (Environment & Energy News...
...bearded youth named Mohamed took me aside to say that Hamas' smuggling will never be stopped because it was being helped by "mens with guns who are hiding in the mountains of Sinai." He adds enigmatically, "The Egyptians are afraid of these men." Some Israeli intelligence reports say that al-Qaeda has found supporters among the Bedouin tribes of Sinai who chafe under the repression of the Egyptian army and that they may be finding common cause with Gaza's militants...
...think politically [the pick] will help the Governor. It will help the team. She will do some things for them upstate ... Conservative Democrats are winning, so politically it might be a plus. It gives balance." - the Rev. Al Sharpton, on the benefits of Gillibrand's selection, on Fox News...
...rich emirate is suffering through plummeting oil prices - now a little over $40 a barrel, down a hundred dollars from a half a year ago - its leaders say they remain committed to expanding Masdar. "The current financial crisis has absolutely no impact on our planned projects," says Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Masdar's imposing CEO. "Our appetite is still the same." (See the top 10 green ideas...
...will likely take a dim view of the manner in which many of the detainees were captured and how they were treated at Gitmo. Tricky legal questions abound. For instance, what to do about detainees who confessed under torture? One case sure to be complicated is that of Mohammed al-Qahtani, who allegedly helped plan the 9/11 attacks - he is sometimes described as the "20th hijacker." Bush Administration officials now admit that he was tortured, and Susan Crawford, the retired judge who is the convening authority of the military commissions, has refused to refer al-Qahtani's case to prosecutors...