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...nudge the North into making concessions. Overhanging all this is the suspicion that in the end, North Korea is simply dead set on getting nukes, no matter what the cost. "We need nuclear weapons to survive if the U.S. continues to isolate and pressure us," North Korea's deputy ambassador to the U.N. told a South Korean newspaper on July 14. If that is truly the North's intent, military action might yet be required to remove the threat. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr./Washington, Matthew Forney and Susan Jakes/Beijing, and John Larkin and Donald Macintyre/Seoul
Last week was rough for disciples of Saddam Hussein. But while Saddam's sons were being gunned down by U.S. forces, another less famous supporter of the fugitive Iraqi dictator held his ground. Mowaffaq Mahmoud al-Ani, Iraq's ex-Ambassador to China, has completed seven weeks of an armed occupation of Iraq's embassy in Beijing. According to Talal al-Khudairi, who has been tapped by Iraq's new Foreign Ministry to assume the ambassadorship, al-Ani received a telegram relieving him of his duties on June 6. Determined to ignore the order, al-Ani chained the doors...
...protect German companies from U.S. lawsuits relating to the Nazi era, the government in 2000 made a deal with Washington that involved setting up a €5 billion fund to pay outstanding Holocaust-related slave-labor claims in exchange for legal immunity from restitution demands. Indeed, the German ambassador in Washington, Wolfgang Ischinger, in January wrote to the New Jersey judge who is considering Principe's suit in the U.S., urging him to dismiss that case. It should, according to the ambassador, be subsumed by the 2000 agreement. Principe's lawyers filed an angry rebuttal, saying the ambassador's letter...
Wilson seemed like a wise choice for the mission. He had been a U.S. ambassador to Gabon and had actually been the last American to speak with Saddam before the first Gulf War. Wilson spent eight days sleuthing in Niger, meeting with current and former government officials and businessmen; he came away convinced that the allegations were untrue. Wilson never had access to the Italian documents and never filed a written report, he told TIME. When he returned to Washington in early March, Wilson gave an oral report about his trip to both CIA and State Department officials. On March...
FEBRUARY 2002: The CIA hears from Dick Cheney's office; he wants to know more. The agency sends former ambassador Joseph Wilson to Niger to investigate...