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The flight chief gave us a safety briefing on the choppers, warning us to avoid the rotors that could decapitate us as we disembarked.
Yet even as African nations fall out of love with Beijing, Western fears have intensified. At closed-door briefing sessions on Africa sponsored by intelligence agencies, I've found nearly every question focuses on negative aspects of China's rise - whether it will undercut efforts to promote better governance in...
Consider the reason given at yesterday's briefing in Washington for the North's motivation in helping Syria build a reactor: "Cash," said a CIA official. The North is a gangster state. It earns hard currency anyway it can-including selling weapons and its expertise in producing them. The point...
A charade is going on in Baghdad and it may end badly. The U.S. military has been very careful to say that the current offensive by the Iraqi government in southern Iraq was simply "enforcement of the law in Basra." It was not directed against the Mahdi Army, the militia...
Picture Perfect? Callie Shell's photograph of Obama captured a frightening reality of his campaign [March 17]. Obama sits confidently consumed in his work, his feet resting atop the table. One imagines he's pondering new considerations for health care, reading aides' suggestions for education reform or reflecting on the...