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...Zinni, the former U.S. central command chief. "They've got to live up to their alliance responsibilities." (Of the 43,250 troops currently in Afghanistan under NATO command, the U.S. has contributed some 15,000, and has another 16,000 in the country under separate command to root out al-Qaeda.) Joe Biden, Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has put the point starkly. "This was not a war of choice," he said this month, drawing an implied distinction between Afghanistan and Iraq. "It was a war of necessity. Our allies have as much at stake...
...nervous about feeling obliged to dispatch German troops to help out. Most Europeans acknowledge that if the current government in Kabul of Hamid Karzai is allowed to fail and the country returns to Taliban rule, the resulting instability could create new safe havens from which the Taliban and al-Qaeda could threaten Europe as well as the U.S. Yet it seems all too easy to ignore the consequences of Western inaction. "There's a total failure of political leadership," says Jonathan Eyal, director of international security studies at London's Royal United Services Institute. "A failure of all European politicians...
...show is an unsettling weave of smart-ass wit and surreal situations from the age of terror. A joke involving communion and oral sex shares a platform with the calculation that al-Qaeda would have to blow up 580 planes a year to compete with the tobacco industry for casualties. This month, an audio version of the show, which has shocked Christian conservatives and delighted fans from Edinburgh to Lahore, was launched on iTunes. E-audiences might miss the comedian's crown of thorns and Gitmo-orange jumpsuit, but that's not dire, as the show, he says...
...Erez, al-Wahedi says he tore up Shin Bet's phone number. "I was angry and frustrated. I knew that if I didn't have surgery immediately, even the best surgeon couldn't fix my eye," he claims. Contacted by TIME, Shin Bet denied approaching al-Wahedi to collaborate and say that he was turned back at Erez because of his involvement in "activities dangerous to the state...
...al-Wahedi, contact with any Israeli had always been traumatic. He says that his father, an ambulance driver, was clearing away wounded Palestinians after a battle when he was shot dead by an Israeli sniper. And his 16-year-old brother was killed by a stray piece of shrapnel from an Israeli rocket attack on a passing car driven by a suspected militant...