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...Aznar we had a heavyweight in Europe. Without him we have lost an interesting voice and committed opponent of terrorism in Europe." The PP considers Zapatero callow but calculating. "The majority of countries in Europe want a strong E.U. that doesn't compete with the U.S.," says Gustavo de Arístegui, the PP's foreign policy spokesman. "Zapatero forgets that out of sheer opportunism. He's an able politician and he saw the tendency of the man on the street. But a government has to be able to take unpopular opinions; that's why they get a four-year...
...police Mobile Brigade, or Brimob as it's known in Indonesia. By the end of 2005, another $12 million will have gone toward forging a team of 400 Indonesian investigators, explosives experts and snipers, armed with high-end American weaponry, including assault vehicles, Colt M-4 assault rifles, Armalite AR-10 sniper rifles and Remington 870 shotguns. "They are training exactly as they would do in the U.S.," explains program manager Gary Laing, a West Point graduate who has served nine years in the U.S. military. "We teach them to save lives and use deadly force as a last resort...
When a powerful politician was ar-rested last week in connection with the child-abuse scandal that has rocked Portugal since last November, it brought hope that the country's creaky, excruciatingly slow justice system was finally getting into gear. The detention of Paulo Pedroso, Socialist M.P. and former minister, was hailed by lawyers and commentators as a sign that the wealthy and influential were no longer untouchable. And so what if the police used investigating techniques that might be deemed unacceptable in other countries? Although not commenting on the merits of particular arrests, Lisbon lawyer Francisco O'Neill Marques...
...plan and the timing of the war. The senior CENTCOM officer said pressure was being applied to the regime in a variety of ways. He singled out special operations in both north and western Iraq as having been highly successful and said that the triangle of Tikrit, Baghdad and Ar Ramadi (what he called "the center of the regime") would get serious additional pressure in the near future...
...Raymond Y. Rodham ’03 drunk-mailed longtime crush Alicia P. Bowden ’03 last Saturday night shortly after urinating in front of horrified bystanders in the Quincy elevator. “Ar yo seeing anyone ritnoew? I am sooooodru nk your hot,” Rodham commented in both the fifth and sixth Bowden-directed e-mails of the night...