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...Al Blades, 26, a former UM safety, was killed when the car he was riding in - and which witnesses say was racing another at high speeds - crashed into a Miami canal. A year before that 'Canes linebacker Chris Campbell, who had just finished his last UM season, was killed when his speeding car struck a tree in Coral Gables...
...asked to provide annual reviews of the procedures they use to target people overseas, so called "basket warrants." The controversy is over the word "persons." Democrats cite a section of the law - which I mentioned in my Swampland post - that defines "persons" as "groups" or "entities." In other words, al-Qaeda could be considered a "person." Republicans - including a senior legal source in the intelligence community who deals with the FISA court regularly - believe that a judge can construe that to mean a review of individuals who have been targeted. This is the sort of dispute that is usually decided...
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal tells TIME that he is optimistic about this week's Middle East peace conference in Annapolis because of what he calls U.S. determination "to see this through." Continuous U.S. mediation in post-conference negotiations, including pressure on Israel, he says, "can turn things around" and lead to a comprehensive settlement before President Bush's term expires in 13 months...
...Appropriations Committee's defense panel, expressed wonderment that anyone would believe what the Pentagon has to say about its coffers running dry. "Because the Pentagon says it, you believe it?" he asked a reporter at a November 20 press conference with Obey. "Go back and look - 'Mission accomplished,' al-Qaeda connection, weapons of mass destruction, on and on and on, and you believe the Pentagon?" He calls the Pentagon's alarmist warnings "Rumsfeld-like," which is perhaps the ultimate insult in Washington today...
...Radicalism has been on the rise for several years in Pakistan. Many members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, fleeing the U.S. assault on their bases in Afghanistan, have taken advantage of the porous border between the countries to regroup in the remote, mountainous tribal areas of Waziristan. But Swat is different. The virtual takeover by extremists of a populous, settled area so close to Islamabad marks a significant advance in local militancy. "Swat is a symbol," says a Western military official based in Islamabad. "Mullah Fazlullah's influence is spreading - it doesn't look good...