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...confirmed the prevailing theory that the abductees were used to teach Korean spies how to impersonate Japanese citizens. One victim, Yaeko Taguchi, a Tokyo bar hostess who had just dropped off her children at day care when she disappeared at age 22, is thought to have trained an agent named Kim Hyon Hui. This agent posed as a Japanese citizen in 1987 to board a South Korean passenger jet and plant a bomb in its cabin. Taguchi, the North Koreans say, is now dead...
Israel is the only country in the region that has virtually unlimited freedom of speech. Any person in Israel whether Jewish, Muslim or Christian can criticize the Israeli government and its leaders. No citizen of any other Middle Eastern or Muslim state can do that without fear of imprisonment or death...
...Bush administration has dismissed Saddam's offer as a ploy designed to avoid a military strike rather than a signal of penitence and resolve to become a global citizen in good standing. Saddam's track record certainly supports Washington's skepticism, but most of the Europeans and the Arabs fear the consequences of a U.S.-Iraq more than they fear Saddam's regime, and they'll insist on taking Iraq's offer as an opportunity to address Iraq's weapons programs through renewed inspections. After all, they don't share the U.S. policy of regime-change, and appear to ready...
...goal may be beyond the reach of an administration openly disdainful of international consensus on so many other issues. The administration's stance on issues ranging from the Kyoto protocol to the International Criminal Court have led even NATO allies to view the Bush Administration as a delinquent global citizen, and pro-Western Arab governments make the argument that when the unconventionally-armed country defying U.N. resolutions is Israel, the U.S. responds with a nod and a wink...
...publicly labeling Padilla an "enemy combatant"--a legally murky phrase that has its origins in a World War II-era case in which a group of German spies infiltrated the country in disguise, thereby forfeiting the usual protections afforded to prisoners of war. Since the attacks, one other American citizen has been classified that way: Yaser Esam Hamdi, a Taliban soldier who was born in Louisiana and captured in Afghanistan. He too has been imprisoned without an attorney or a trial...