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...Last Sunday former CIA Director Michael Hayden argued that abusive interrogations do indeed work. He cited the arrest of a mid-level al-Qaeda member who helped coordinate 9/11, Ramzi bin al-Shibh. According to Hayden, Abu Zubaydah gave up the name after being waterboarded. This may be true, but the deeper question is, Was it worth the candle? Isn't all of the international condemnation, not to mention the demoralization of the CIA, too high a price to pay for the arrest of a mid-level al-Qaeda operative? (See pictures of the aftermath of Abu Ghraib...
...years ago, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, then emir of Dubai, expressed concerns that health care levels in the United Arab Emirates were not up to par. The government of Dubai then approached Harvard for a center for medical education and research...
Lizzy Elrod ’11, who was the main organizer of the event, announced that whoever found the one red egg would win the grand prize. Within five minutes, Andrew Trott ’11 found it under a trash bin. He won a Jesus figurine, but he decided he didn’t really want it and gave it to another egg hunter...
...needs to get back to what it does best, find and turn that Pakistani intelligence officer who knows where Osama bin Laden is today. Or turn that Iranian nuclear scientist who can tell us how close Iran is to having a bomb. Neither was ever going to be found in the prisons in Afghanistan or Iraq...
...True again - and U.S. complicity in the creation of al-Qaeda shouldn't be forgotten - but the game changed after the Russians were kicked out of Afghanistan and the terrorists focused their attention on both the U.S. and Pakistan, where they now reside. Zardari insisted the presence of Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar on Pakistani soil wasn't his fault. "They were pushed [into Pakistan] by your great military offensive [in Afghanistan]," he said sarcastically. "For seven years nothing has happened, and now we are weak and you are unable to do anything about it ... I've lost...