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...with a tough, no-nonsense style who will sort out NATO in Afghanistan [Sept. 14]. Why, then, does he say, "We would very much like to see further contributions from the European side," when a "tough, no-nonsense style" would say, "France and Germany, your troops are no use behind a hedge 500 miles away from the fighting - get them where the action is." Bob Wydell, OSWESTRY, ENGLAND...
...tough, no-nonsense style who will sort out NATO in Afghanistan [Sept. 14]. Why, then, does he say, "We would very much like to see further contributions from the European side"? A tough, no-nonsense style would be to say, "France and Germany, your troops are no use behind a hedge 500 miles away from the fighting - get them where the action is." Bob Wydell, Oswestry, England...
...question is, Will he be invited back? Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi used his first U.N. General Assembly appearance to deliver a rambling 100-min. tirade in which he dubbed the Security Council a "terror council," suggested Israel was behind John F. Kennedy's assassination, warned of a "fish flu" and plugged his website...
...Haven, Conn., wrapped up their investigation into the brutal slaying of a Yale University medical student. Police charged Raymond Clark III, a laboratory technician, with strangling Annie Le, 24, on Sept. 8 in the Yale lab where they both worked. Her body was found in a crawl space behind a wall five days later, on what was to be her wedding day. That heartrending coincidence and Le's promising future helped attract national attention to the Ivy League crime...
Western diplomats in Sana'a, however, suspect that the real culprits behind this year's attacks on foreigners come from the growing band of al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen. Under pressure in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, al-Qaeda is turning the lawless mountain areas of Yemen into a new staging area. U.S. officials and terrorism experts don't think Yemen is close to becoming a failed state like Somalia - just across the Red Sea. But there are warning signs that things could get worse: the Houthi rebellion, secessionists in the south, Somali pirates menacing the coast, an economy that...