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...than its protagonist. But in the case of At Risk (Knopf; 367 pages) it really can't be helped. At Risk is a thriller about Liz Carlyle, a plucky young agent in MI5 (Britain's equivalent of the FBI) who spars with a roguish male sidekick while chasing a bomb-toting Islamic terrorist and his "invisible" (blond, British and female) co-conspirator. The book follows the standard spy-novel formula, though the formula works with surprising elegance--perhaps because its author, Stella Rimington, is a former director general of MI5 who spent 30 years foiling the plots of baddies from...
...LIBYA ACQUIRE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION? The program started at the very beginning of the revolution. The world was different then. It was not only Libya that was thinking along these lines. I know [former Romanian leader] Ceausescu used to boast that Romania was able to manufacture the nuclear bomb...
...MADE LIBYA DECIDE TO DISMANTLE ITS WMD? We started to ask ourselves, "By manufacturing nuclear weapons, against whom are we going to use them?" World alliances have changed. We had no target. And then we started thinking about the cost. If someone attacks you and you use a nuclear bomb, you are in effect using it against yourself...
...None of this may make a difference. Iraq may be beyond salvaging; Iran may not be talked out of its desire for a nuclear bomb. But there is hope for a breakthrough between the Israelis and Palestinians, and a world of other problems to address. A less peremptory, more conciliatory-though still tough-minded, conservative-U.S. foreign policy could help with all of these. Even the hawks are grudgingly aware of the limits of military action in the Islamic world...
...them could collect on life insurance policies worth just over j830,000. German federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said the money would have funded attacks in Iraq. Prosecutors also allege that one of the men tried to buy 48 g of enriched uranium in Luxembourg - not enough for a bomb but, as E.U. terror czar Gijs de Vries said, "a risk we must take seriously." Apprehending terror suspects is one thing; convicting them is another. That difficulty was highlighted last week in Milan when five Muslim men who had recruited fighters for Iraq were acquitted of terrorism charges. Judge Clementina Forleo...