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...What's happened so far has fallen short of the feared all-out offensive in Gaza. But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proclaimed that "extreme action" is possible, despite calls from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to show restraint and give diplomacy more time.In an interview with the BBC, Saeb Erekat, a leading Palestinian political figure, denounced the steps taken thus far, in particular the strike on the power station, as a form of collective punishment that is "adding fuel to the fire." For his part, President Abbas said in a statement Wednesday that "the president considers the aggression...
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...before they could arrive, the secret negotiations were thrown in jeopardy when Italian authorities, acting on information from U.S. officials, seized the BBC China cargo ship in the Mediterranean carrying thousands of components for Libya's illicit uranium-enrichment facility. As only a handful of top U.S., British and Libyan officials knew about the secret talks, the discovery provided the public with smoking gun proof of Libya's covert nuclear program. According to Seif al Islam, MI6 officers immediately flew from London to Tripoli to assure the Libyans that the incident need not affect the secret disarmament plans. The seizure...
OTHER HITS: BBC's In Our Time and On the Media from NPR/WNYC...