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...could have been my arrival on the outskirts of Kandahar, or maybe common sense. They knew they were finished." As Karzai waited for Taliban Defense Minister Obaidullah Akhund and Interior Minister Abdul Razaq to meet him at his desert base, he was nearly killed by an errant American bomb that killed three U.S. commandos. Karzai steadied himself and held two days of talks with the two Taliban commanders, the intended targets of the U.S. strike. The next day he made the deal for "a slow and orderly" transfer of power from the Taliban to a tribal council of non-Taliban...
...intimate vignettes, masterfully array them into a coherent whole and continually experiment with his camera work, but Soderbergh also keeps in step with the film’s cheeky “why not?” spirit. Why not rob an impenetrable casino fortress? Why not detonate a bomb in downtown Vegas to wipe out all electricity? Why not have Wayne Newton, Siegfried & Roy and world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis in cameo roles as themselves...
Dukakis, a 1960 graduate of Harvard Law School, touched on security issues, as well, saying that Amtrak has stepped up police presence at its stations and utilized bomb-sniffing dogs...
...other public venues that might attract terrorists—like the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games just around the corner—a carefully secured perimeter with metal detectors and bomb-sniffing wands would short-circuit most terrorist plots without trampling on the civil liberties of everyone else in attendance. As has always been the case, the best way to prevent terrorism is a capable intelligence force that can sniff out trouble at an early stage...
...send a message, nothing more. They are still bombing empty headquarters. And some will say it's contradictory to demand that Arafat take certain actions, but then bomb him immediately. But on the one hand Sharon wants him to act against terror, and on the other hand Sharon doesn't believe Arafat is going to do so. Sharon knows that only American pressure can change Arafat. Sharon, for internal reasons, had to do something. Bibi Netanyahu is breathing down is neck, and the people want revenge. He needs to do something, and the army is doing it. Not even Peres...