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This is all mighty odd. Republicans spent eight years criticizing the Clinton Administration for neocolonial nation building in such places as Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti. This, we were told, was a diversion from America's core missions: national defense and the establishment of a global security system based on relations with other great powers. Last week, however, a senior White House official blithely said, "We're for nation building," as long as American troops aren't used to do it. (Which begs the question: Who will be used...
...This is all mighty odd. Republicans spent eight years criticizing the Clinton Administration for neocolonial nation building in such places as Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti. This, we were told, was a diversion from America's core missions: national defense and the establishment of a global security system based on relations with other great powers. Last week, however, a senior White House official blithely said, "We're for nation building," as long as American troops aren't used to do it. (Which begs the question: Who will be used...
...cooperating without realizing that he's doing it." Zammar may also be revealing how Atta and his fellow Hamburg students were recruited. Zammar, who moved to Germany in 1971 at age 10, was well known in several Hamburg mosques where he advocated jihad. He claimed to have fought in Bosnia. Beginning in 1997, neighbors of Atta's would often see Zammar carrying boxes up to the Egyptian student's second-story walk-up. U.S. investigators believe he may have persuaded Atta's Islamic study group to offer its services to al-Qaeda around...
...suspected members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban now being held in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detainees no longer have to relieve themselves into plastic bags. Bensayah Belkacem, an Algerian who is suspected of plotting to blow up the American embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, shared the news in a recent letter to his wife. Anela Kobilica told TIME last week that her husband detailed Gitmo's new sanitary arrangements. Delta's 612 cells--metal boxes about 8 ft. square--are now equipped with flushable toilets and knee-high sinks in which devout Muslims can perform their ritual...
...BOSNIA The Illinois-based Benevolence International Foundation says it is a charity, but last week officials revealed that during raids in Sarajevo in March, police found evidence said to link the foundation and its head, Enaam Arnaout, right, to Osama bin Laden. Arnaout is being held in Chicago...