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...Malaysia. (U.S. officials are also trying to check movements into Somalia, Chechnya and Sudan.) In all three of the likeliest havens, the CIA has been working with local officials to round up the members of extensive al-Qaeda cells, while U.S. diplomats have been pressing their host countries to bolster surveillance at airports and border checkpoints. No U.S. special-forces operations have been launched against cells outside Afghanistan as yet, but in a letter to the U.N. Security Council on the war last week, U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte pointedly noted that Washington reserved the right to take "further actions with...
...high-walled villa of Afghan warlord Gul Agha Shirzai, the horse trading has already begun. On the edge of a magnificent carpet in his vast reception room, Shirzai holds court daily, propped against a bolster, surrounded by whispering attendants and discreetly armed bodyguards. For the past month, a steady stream of low-level tribal leaders from across the border in Afghanistan has appeared at his ornate doors in Quetta, Pakistan, seeking an audience with a man they expect will soon return from a five-year exile. His contacts and prominence--Shirzai heads an ancient and powerful clan--make...
Working mostly from source material, including some never-before-available letters from Jackie to Macmillan, Leaming argues that Jackie was "one of the most public and political First Ladies yet," despite the fact that her efforts needed to be veiled as "social rather than political." But Leaming doesn't bolster her claims by referring to the commonplace notion that the Kennedy presidency was the first shaped by television, an idea that would have underscored the importance of his wife's mastery of the language of images. Instead, Leaming's focus on detailed accounts of the various (mostly foreign policy) challenges...
...bolster a flailing system...
...that this will be a long, drawn-out campaign: "This is not something that begins with a significant event or ends with a significant event." But the starkly defined strategy of building a coalition is definitely significant. The choices Asian countries (and individuals) are making have the potential to bolster or undermine the alliance in the short term and define domestic and regional politics for decades to come...