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...return of hard-hitting political attack ads that have characterized both sides. When Chambliss first ran for the seat in 2002 against the incumbent Max Cleland, he aired ads that accused Cleland, a triple amputee and decorated Vietnam veteran, of not being patriotic enough and soft on Osama Bin Laden. Fast forward six years and the attacks have been just as ugly. One of Chambliss's charges is that Martin raised taxes as he voted to raise his own government expense account. Martin fired back with an ad saying Chambliss had "supported George Bush's economic policies every step...
Will he go for a chic pied-a-terre in Barcelona's Barri Gotic? A hacienda amid the Andalusian olive groves? Or will Omar bin Laden discreetly opt, as so many of his countrymen already have, for a marble and gilt-clad villa in Marbella...
...folly to predict. Events are moving too quickly. When Obama launched his campaign last year, the biggest issue in the world was Iraq. Now the public's interest - and U.S. involvement there - is dwindling almost by the day. Obama's bumper-sticker plan for Afghanistan - more troops to catch bin Laden - is being swallowed up in a befuddling tangle of intractable issues, ranging from the Afghan heroin trade to the instability of Kashmir. Foreign policy breeds surprises in American Presidents: Nixon went to China; Reagan proposed nuclear disarmament; Bush changed from "humble" to imperial in a single morning. Compounding...
...penultimate chapter, admitting that "we were naïve back in December 2001 to think that Westerners could invade a Muslim country and rely on indigenous fighters to kill their Islamic brothers with tenacity and impunity." What readers are ultimately left with, though, is the barest outline of bin Laden, the man who has become an international punchline while making a joke out of the governments that have pursued him for so long - however interesting it might be to find out how he got away...
...Gilad Shalit, that they will all be killed and all slaughtered because this is what they deserve," it read. Settler wrath was also aimed at Washington. Commenting on the arrival of the U.S.-sponsored Palestinian security forces in Hebron, settler leader Baruch Marzel told TIME: "It's like asking Bin Laden's men to come protect Manhattan." He added: "They're terrorists. We'll shoot them if they come near our houses...