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...Saddam Hussein. When al-Libi insisted that he “knew nothing,” he found himself locked in a tiny cage for over 80 hours and then beaten for 15 minutes. Suddenly, he found reason to link Iraq to Al Qaeda, a lie that provided the central plank in the Bush administration’s case...
...Rwandan Model The first nation to be so claimed - or to claim PEACE, really - was Rwanda. In 2005, Paul Kagame, who overthrew the genocidal regime of the small central African nation and later became its President, appeared at a celebration for Saddleback's 25th anniversary. Warren revealed that Kagame intended Rwanda to become the "first purpose-driven nation." Soon Saddleback members were commuting to and from Kigali, its capital. By the end of this year, 1,750 PEACE volunteers will have visited Rwanda. Not only have PEACE volunteers gone to work on health and development, Kagame says, but the more...
...almost entirely from oil. Between $67 another $79 billion in oil revenues is projected for Iraq in 2008 with prices remaining at record levels on the world market. That leaves the Iraqi government with a budget surplus this year of roughly $50 billion, which is managed by the Central Bank of Iraq along with the country's other revenues. Yet Iraq has spent only a fraction of its own money on reconstruction. The GAO report found that the Iraqi government spent just $12.2 billion of its capital investment budget in 2007. Iraqi central ministries spent only 11% of their capital...
While some of Iraq's surplus funds sit in U.S. accounts, no Iraqi officials reached by TIME expressed any concern that they would be able to access the money. All the funds are managed by the Central Bank of Iraq and spent on government orders. Iraqi officials say continuing violence has undoubtedly hindered the rebuilding. A shortage of skilled officials in key ministries and anti-corruption safeguards have also slowed Iraqi reconstruction initiatives, U.S. and Iraqi officials...
...wearing skull caps greet one another with handshakes and the phrase "As-Salamu 'Alaykum," Arabic for "Peace be upon you." The language of the Uighurs is closer to Turkish than Chinese, and the architecture - Islamic domes, decorative Arabic script, grape trellises - looks more to the oasis cities of Central Asia than to the east...