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...difficult to understand why, as the New York Times reported on Friday, the U.S. is eager for the U.N. to encourage Iraqi weapons scientists to take asylum in America and divulge the locations of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The scientists and their families could then join “a witness protection program” planned for such defectors. Especially in these most urgent and time-constrained of circumstances, weapons inspection relies on a kind of educated guesswork; inside information could eliminate much of this uncertainty and mean the difference between peace...
Perhaps a less gullible mind would read between the lines of the defense department’s announced intentions. It seems naive to take at face value the department’s absurdly improbable plan to kidnap our enemies’ bombsmiths and hope the kind offer of asylum will move them to reveal their secrets. Since jail-time might not be as effective with Iraqi scientists as mobsters, the defense department could find itself tempted to turn to a bit of off-the-books torture once the U.N. handed over the new guests...
...feel European. Europe needs to make its concept of citizenship inclusive to all cultures and religions. I'm a practicing Muslim but I'm not a freak. I'm not a fundamentalist." According to immigration records, Abou Jahjah arrived in Belgium from Lebanon in 1991 as an asylum seeker. On his application form, he claimed that he had belonged to Hizballah and was fleeing after a dispute with militia leaders. "That was a lie," he says now. "I was a 19-year-old boy and I had to make up a story so I could get asylum. I emigrated because...
...Condoleezza Rice traveled to New York City last week to press unmovic's Blix to carry out Point 5, the section of the U.N. mandate authorizing unrestricted access to Iraq's scientists, who can be taken out of the country, with their families, for questioning. The Administration proposes offering asylum to such witnesses and their families if they disclose crucial information...
...French and British governments are trying to change that. In return for closing Sangatte and adopting a harder line against migrants, the French have demanded that Britain reform its asylum policy. Under the new Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill approved last week, asylum seekers in the U.K. will lose the right to work that they have enjoyed until now; appeal procedures will be streamlined; access to benefit payments restricted; and holding centers built to house asylum seekers while their claims are being processed. But even if these measures are implemented next year as promised, it's by no means certain...