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...long-time residents of Iraq told the human rights group that his clients, arrested by the Iraqi Interior Ministry's Wolf Brigade paramilitary force last May 12, were beaten with cables, shocked with electricity and had their faces burned with lighted cigarettes to extract confessions (later recanted) for bomb attacks. The four men "alleged too that a U.S. military officer was present at one time in the room in which they were being interrogated," according to the report. Amnesty researchers tell TIME, however, that they don't know if the men also were being tortured when the U.S. officer...
...Touting evidence to help convince wavering allies that Iran is engaged in a covert bomb program also carries its own risks: The evidence is mostly circumstantial, much of it resting on the contents of a stolen Iranian laptop computer. And considering how things turned out when the U.S. made its case in the security council about Iraqi WMDs in the run-up to the war, Washington's credibility on these issues isn't exactly strong. Moreover, nothing will weaken diplomatic support for U.S. positions on Iran faster than associating them with the Bush administration's well-known appetite for regime...
...Times reports that Iran is as much as ten years away from being able to perfect the kind of industrial-scale enrichment that Tehran has threatened in exchange for Security Council referral. And while its nuclear stance is remarkably popular across the political spectrum at home, even building a bomb wouldn't answer the regime's basic problem: How to create jobs for the millions of young Iranians chafing under their poverty, who elected President Ahmadinejad on promises to put food on their tables. Foreign investment and trade remains the key to transforming Iran's economic prospects, and prospects...
They do, however, have diagrams that they believe show components of a nuclear bomb. According to a Western diplomat familiar with the U.S. intel brief, a Farsi-language PowerPoint presentation on the laptop has "catchy graphics," including diagrams of a hollow metallic sphere 2 ft. in diameter and weighing about 440 lbs. Other documents show a sphere-shaped array of tiny detonators. No file specifically refers to a nuclear bomb, but U.S. officials say the design of the sphere--an outer shell studded with small chemical-explosive charges meant to detonate inward, which would squeeze an inner core of material...
...Documentary short. The synopsis should make you cry. God Sleeps in Rwanda (female survivors of African genocide) is up against The Mushroom Club (the deformed children of the Hiroshima A bomb). The Death of Kevin Carter investigates the life and suicide of a Pulitzer-winning, daredevil South African photographer. A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin is a biography of the writer of 40s inspirational radio scripts...