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Among the new laws of the land is one ensuring that Musharraf, who toppled the civilian government in a 1999 military coup, will rule for another five years. Another amendment sets up a National Security Council, packed with Musharraf's military and civilian appointees, which will oversee the next elected Prime Minister and his cabinet. The General also awarded himself the right to dissolve Parliament. "Musharraf might as well declare himself as the absolute monarch for life," huffed a spokesman from the Pakistan People's Party. Another opposition group, the Pakistan Muslim League, vowed to use "every step short...
...Charging Barghouti in the public glare of a civilian court rather than in the shadowy secrecy of a military tribunal (more typically granted Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza) is a calculated political risk for Israel. The authorities aim to produce evidence - including testimony from, among others, two imprisoned Barghouti deputies who have apparently agreed to speak against their boss - portraying Barghouti as the operational godfather of the Al Aksa Martyr's Brigade, a Fatah offshoot responsible for scores of suicide terror attacks that have killed hundreds of Israeli civilians. Israeli officials hope such a charge will convince...
...some Israeli right-wingers have warned that a civilian court will offer a political platform to the most articulate spokesman for the Palestinian intifada. Barghouti grabbed just such an opportunity during his brief appearance Tuesday, directing his political message at Israelis. And his lawyer has also made clear that Barghouti's legal defense is rooted in the premise that the Israeli court has no authority to try his client, something Barghouti's representatives have maintained since his capture by an Israeli special forces unit outside Ramallah...
...Pakistanis and one Kyrgyz national - had been caught late last year, but they had apparently sawn through bars on a prison window and fled the capital Kabul. The firefight took place at an isolated police post at Binizar about 15 km southeast of Kabul. Two government soldiers and one civilian also died in the fighting...
...taking stock; not getting off the career-overtime-promotion hamster wheel; not, God forbid, living each day as if it might be our last. Because who would spend that day in an airless cubicle or on the 8:30 to Denver? We needed to believe that civilian, commuter-consumer life is heroic. And Flight 93--a weekday flight carrying largely business travelers--rendered the term "road warrior" literal...