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...advocate and practitioner of human rights throughout the world, I can confidently assert that Israel’s record on human rights is among the best, especially among nations that have confronted comparable threats. Though far from perfect, Israel has shown extraordinary concern for avoiding civilian casualties in its half-century effort to protect its civilians from terrorism. Jordan killed more Palestinians in a single month than Israel has between 1948 and the present...
...live subjects. John Gilbert, a former U.N. and Pentagon chemical-weapons inspector who viewed the tapes, says the dog's spasmodic reaction indicates that it might have been subjected to a nerve gas like sarin. Bin Laden is known to have tried to develop unconventional weapons: U.S. intelligence officials assert that while living in Sudan in the early '90s, he tested nerve agents that could be dispensed by bombs or artillery shells. In early 2000, CIA Director George Tenet warned that bin Laden "operatives have trained to conduct attacks with toxic chemicals or biological toxins." The new video suggests...
...appear in September despite the Justice Department investigation. He has been negotiating for weeks with Stewart's lawyers, who are trying to stave off a summons that would create a difficult choice for the Princess of Propriety: testify at the risk of contradicting herself under oath or assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. The latter is her legal privilege, but would do nothing to help the stock of her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which has fallen 65% since the ImClone news broke...
...Laden is known to have tried to develop unconventional weapons: U.S. intelligence officials assert that while living in Sudan in the early ?90s, he tested nerve agents that could be dispensed by bombs or artillery shells. In early 2000, CIA Director George Tenet warned that bin Laden "operatives have trained to conduct attacks with toxic chemicals or biological toxins." The new video suggests how close they may be to pulling them...
...some of the most impressive examples of ancient Asian art, these murals are also the latest fetish in the stolen antiquities trade. Even after 1,500 years, their colorful depictions of Koguryo life and myth still prove seductive, and there have been several reported tomb lootings. Chinese authorities assert that wealthy South Koreans are behind the thefts, an allegation backed by the sighting of stolen Koguryo murals in Seoul last year...