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...their hour of unprecedented tragedy, millions of Spaniards gathered in city streets throughout their country to hold a candlelight memorial vigil. The whole world looked on with sympathy and great admiration as Spaniards remained calm in the face of disaster. Bala Sugavanam Vienna...
Chances are, Condoleezza Rice's testimony before the 9/11 Commission has not changed many Americans' perception of the Bush Administration's handling of terrorism. President Bush's National Security Adviser gave a calm and competent performance in defense of the administration's case that it had done all that could have been expected in relation to al-Qaeda in the months before the attacks. Supporters of the Bush administration will, by and large, accept Dr. Rice's argument that even an awareness of a general Qaeda threat could not have allowed the custodians of the nation's security to anticipate...
...depth of election-year partisan division, not only on Capitol Hill but also in the electorate, will likely limit the extent to which either Rice or Clarke's testimony alters the political landscape. Rice's calm, competent performance, has redeemed the administration somewhat. But calls for declassification of the August 6 briefing and questions over the duration and nature of the joint Bush-Cheney appearance before the commission will keep the fires of Democratic criticism over 9/11 burning for weeks to come...
...more important than the Coalition military effort eliminate the Mahdi militia will be the stance adopted by Grand Ayatollah Sistani. Even if Moqtada himself may not accept Sistani's appeals for restraint, the supreme spiritual leader is nonetheless far more influential than the young upstart. Sistani has called for calm on all sides but has criticized the Coalition's handling of Moqtada's challenge. The IGC has once again been reduced to the supplicant role, sending a delegation on Wednesday to implore Sistani to intervene. But the Grand Ayatollah has problems of his own with the Coalition...
...styles his movement not in opposition to Sistani, but instead as a kind of militant vanguard pursuing the same objectives - majority rule and early elections (in which, given Moqtada's extensive party organization, he could legitimately expect to fare rather well). Following the weekend's violence, Sistani called for calm and urged Shiites to refrain from retaliating. But he also said their demands were legitimate and condemned the actions of the Coalition troops...