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Romney’s agenda is long-standing: several other recent Republican governors of Massachusetts, such as current Ambassador to Canada A. Paul Cellucci, have led unsuccessful attempts to reinstate the death penalty. But state legislators must fully realize the significance of their voice in this contentious issue. In 1997, the State House of Representatives came within one vote of passing a death penalty bill. The threat of capital punishment is a very real...
...forces have apprehended Farouk Hijazi, the Iraqi spymaster and former ambassador to Turkey. Hijazi has confessed to meeting with top al Qaeda brass, under Saddam’s orders, in 1994 in Sudan—as had long been speculated by American intelligence. He will not admit to a much-rumored December 1998 summit with bin Laden in Kandahar, at which time he allegedly offered the Saudi exile refuge in Iraq...
Thomas C. Hubbard, the current U.S. ambassador to Seoul, defended the Bush administration’s record and said that American negotiators had established “the beginnings of dialogue” with Pyongyang during the recent round of talks in Beijing in August...
...South Korean ambassador to the U. S., Han Sung-Joo, who was scheduled to join the panel, cancelled his appearance after his flight from Washington was grounded in New York...
...Taking political control in Baghdad away from Ambassador Bremer and handing it to a UN official, however, may go far beyond what Washington is willing to accept. Given the commitment of life and treasure the U.S. has already made in Iraq, and the fact that it will likely continue to shoulder the lion's share of military and economic responsibility, Washington is unlikely to simply hand over the reins to an international diplomat. And to do so, of course, would be to admit the failure of the administration's own postwar strategy. But some of President Bush's domestic critics...