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...show, particularly one that's supposed to celebrate heaven, but don't tell that to Torsten Römer. "The tension between a place so burdened with history and a spiritual subject such as paradise is just so fitting," he says. The Alexanderplatz bunker was Berlin's largest civilian air-raid shelter, built to accommodate 3,000 people in 55 rooms. It now houses 200 performance and installation artists from around the world, whose work includes rooms containing a depiction of Dante's vision of heaven, a reconstructed department store complete with sales staff to greet visitors, and an Adam...
...stanch the political, diplomatic and actual bleeding over Iraq. There are turf wars everywhere. The CIA is at war with the White House; the Pentagon is at war with the State Department and the National Security Council (NSC); some elements of the uniformed military are furious with the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, partly for launching the attack against Iraq in the first place without enough allied support. The fault lines are largely between moderate diplomatic and military traditionalists and more aggressive neoconservatives and nationalists...
...reconstruction efforts in Iraq. He said he hadn't been consulted in advance. He implied that Rice's effort wasn't very important, anyway. Rumors of a Pentagon boycott of the process began to bubble when the political, economic and counterterrorism group meetings were either canceled or held without civilian Pentagon participation. An NSC source offered the plausible argument that these were just logistical problems with a new process. But the instantaneous rumors were typical of the Administration's foreign-policy mess...
Whether the Iraqis had actual stores of unconventional weapons, Spertzel argues, is beside the point. He finds it credible that Iraq converted many of its weapons factories to civilian uses. Baghdad's official policy from 1995, he notes, was that facilities that were not building weapons had to be self-supporting. But, he adds, "they would be available when called upon" to return to armsmaking. Spertzel thinks the focus on finding a 55-gal. drum of poison is misplaced. "The concern that many of us always had was not that they were producing great quantities of stuff but that...
...Charged. Ahmed Fathy Mehalba, 31, civilian interpreter at the Guant?namo Bay prison camp; with lying to federal investigators about alleged possession of classified documents; in Boston. Mehalba, an Egyptian-born U.S. citizen, is the third Guant?namo worker arrested for possible security breaches...