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Although the report focuses on military disarmament, it also advocates an effort to remove material from lightly-guarded civilian research reactors that could be used in weapons...
...over on June 30, and preparing for eventual general elections. This posture may signal its preferred stance, that is to accept specific projects within areas of special competence but to avoid taking over the lead role. The U.N. has become reluctant to accept full responsibility for the so-called civilian side, not only because it can read the perilousness of the situation it would now inherit, but because of its well-founded fears of continued manipulation and scapegoating at the hands of the U.S. We are now again second-guessing U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, as well as quarreling among...
...believe the other six soldiers implicated so far--Graner, Frederick, Davis and three female MPs--superior officers not only knew but approved of it all. The accused insist that military intelligence and civilian interrogators told the low-ranking MPs to soften up prisoners before they were questioned and that the unit was just doing the job. Guy Womack, Graner's civilian attorney, gave TIME copies of two photos he intends to use to defend his client, who was formally charged last week on seven counts of maltreatment and committing indecent acts. According to Graner, the photos, taken from a vantage...
...checked the rules thoroughly before judging Sanchez's list to be "consistent" with the Geneva Conventions. But according to Scott Horton of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, several senior military lawyers went to him last May and October with concerns that Pentagon civilian attorneys were easing the rules of interrogation to endanger prisoner rights. Finally, an exasperated Senator asked Wolfowitz how he would judge it if foreigners interrogated an American naked and hooded, with his arms in the air for 45 min. "What you've described sounds to me like a violation...
...even if they could. Absent a Palestinian structure taking charge of security in the wake of an Israeli withdrawal, the Israelis are trying to do the job themselves before they leave by eliminating known enemies. That, however, draws them in more deeply and continually runs the risk of killing civilians, because the known militants are deeply rooted in the civilian community in an area with some of the world's highest levels of population density. And military actions produce their own logic of escalation. When Palestinians inflict losses on the IDF - such as last week's ambushes in which Israel...