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...Tokyo bar hostess who had just dropped off her children at day care when she disappeared at age 22, is thought to have trained an agent named Kim Hyon Hui. This agent posed as a Japanese citizen in 1987 to board a South Korean passenger jet and plant a bomb in its cabin. Taguchi, the North Koreans say, is now dead...
...sensitive weapons. On top of everything, the U.N. doesn’t expect to have inspectors on the ground until six months from now, giving Hussein the chance to prepare his stash of anthrax, dig up old canisters of VX and throw everything he has at developing a nuclear bomb. Weapons inspection is a tedious process, and the first phase will be spent just figuring out which installations need to be inspected. If the inspectors are ever on the verge of finding something important, Iraq can always throw them out or obstruct their work, since there is no enforcement mechanism...
Orit Cohen hobbles angrily away from the house as fast as her prosthetic foot will take her. The 13-year-old doesn't want photos taken of the injury she suffered 22 months ago when a roadside bomb blew up her school bus. From the doorstep, her father Ophir calmly watches her go. He knows she can't run far. Her leg is still weak, and in any case no one ventures alone outside this isolated Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip, a tiny fortress under constant threat of Palestinian attack. Three of Ophir Cohen's eight children lost limbs...
...about a lot of things but not a lot about anything. In an oddball career, I have played a butcher, a rugby player, a nuclear physicist, a boxer, and loads of other parts. So I can tell you a little bit about making sausages, playing rugby, building an A-bomb, and knocking someone out cold. But I can’t actually do any of those things. What don’t I know? Just about everything. What do I know? How to pretend I know...
Last week a U.S. official called it "underwhelming," and several British officials close to Tony Blair agreed that it contained no smoking gun, no proof "that Saddam has an atom bomb in Basra." But today Blair's government released its long-promised dossier on Saddam's program to build weapons of mass destruction, hours before parliament assembled for an emergency debate on Iraq. Among its key findings...