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FRANCE Terror Setup A French-Algerian airport baggage handler, suspected of being a terrorist when he was arrested after weapons and explosives were found in the boot of his car, was released from jail. Police say he was the victim of a setup. Abderazak Besseghir argued that he was being framed by the family of his late wife, a claim substantiated when a witness who told police he saw Besseghir handling the guns in the car park of Charles de Gaulle airport admitted to being part of a plot to implicate...
...million per year. The mission was welcomed by the U.S., which has long urged Europe to take a greater role in peacekeeping in the Balkans. FRANCE Under Suspicion A baggage handler arrested at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport after guns and explosives were found in the boot of his car was placed under formal investigation for the illegal possession of weapons and criminal association with a terrorist organization. Abderazak Besseghir, a French citizen of Algerian descent, said he had been framed by the family of his late wife, who blamed him for her death in a house fire last July...
...Later, outside the attorney general's office near Wall Street, a young man crossing the street recognizes Spitzer and calls out, "Don't give up the fight!" Upstate, in Rochester, after Spitzer delivers a speech to local Rotarians, Bob Maney, a stockbroker at Prudential Financial (and a Republican to boot), says, "He's pushing the right buttons...
...gave us the music community performing A Tribute to Heroes. 2002 gave us Eminem electrocuting Dick Cheney (in the video for Without Me) and country singer Toby Keith, in his controversial song Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue, promising the nation's enemies, "We'll put a boot in your ass/It's the American way." The culture wars returned, with books from political playground scrappers like Michael Moore and Sean Hannity. Online, the explosion of self-published weblogs revealed a community as divided and outspoken as in the angry-white-male '90s. Architects last summer released their first proposals...
...Perle, the Pentagon adviser who for years has argued for regime change in Iraq, recently denounced imperialist ambitions in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro. "It is quite simply impossible," said Perle, "to prove that the United States has behaved in an imperialist manner." Yet as Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations argues, "Nobody wants to acquire an empire, but we are acquiring one. The general idea that we have to undertake nation building in Iraq is now established." So it is in Afghanistan and Palestine; put those three nations together, and the beginning...