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...Politically speaking, I think the Palestinians who did this did not think of all of the political consequences that would follow the assassination. As a wise Palestinian told me off the record, "I believe that the people who sent Palestinians to assassinate the Israeli ambassador in London in May 1982 are the same people who sent the assassins of Zeevi. Because they knew and know the reaction of the Israelis. (The 1982 killing sparked Israel's invasion of Lebanon.) And they wanted to punish Arafat...
Pakistan's public promise to help the U.S. has scared off its Afghan sources. The Taliban pressed Islamabad to call its diplomatic officials home for "safety" reasons, and other Pakistani informants are no longer allowed to move freely around Afghanistan. The Taliban destroyed satellite phones, and the Afghan ambassador in Pakistan moved down to Quetta for more secure contact with Taliban leaders in Kandahar. Taliban police are checking beneath women's body-length veils for disguised spies and keeping an eye on any tribal elder receiving guests or a sudden flow of money...
...attacks.) And as in the Gulf War, the U.S. has a tricky balance to strike between its long-term, irrevocable commitment to Israel and its short-term interest in placating the Arab street. Washington clearly sees a need for buttressing friendly Muslim regimes in the crisis. Former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Wyche Fowler warns against assuming that "monarchs can do anything they want without consequences from a restless or dissident citizenry...
Earle, a former Pennsylvania Governor, former ambassador and sometime spy who tipped off Roosevelt to the V-3, was one of F.D.R.'s occasionally wild-haired espionage operatives. In Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage (Random House; 564 pages; $35), Joseph E. Persico explores--with judicious historical zest and a fine eye for detail--the hallucinatory world of snooping, concealments, betrayals and confidence games played for world-history stakes...
...Senate. He changed that institution, encouraging everyone, especially junior Senators, to speak out. At the end of World War II, as a junior Congressman, he advised Truman to allow Japan to keep its Emperor when the country surrendered. At his retirement from the Senate, he served as U.S. ambassador to Japan for 11 years...