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...crisis with his national-security team. He decided that the Administration would restrict its initial public statements to a Powell press conference that afternoon--and that the statements would contain no criticism of Israel. Powell called for Sharon to "consider the consequences" of his actions and limit civilian casualties, but his posture effectively gave the Israelis a green light. White House officials indicated that while the Administration has not abandoned efforts to mediate a truce between the Israelis and the Palestinians, it doesn't plan to restrain Israel or launch any new initiative to halt the violence. "Ultimately," one senior...
...country in the northwestern Saida region, they were ambushed by the very people they were searching for. In the most lethal attack this year of the 10-year insurgency that has claimed more than 120,000 lives, 20 soldiers were left dead as well as one member of a civilian self-defense group. The assailants were thought to be members of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), avenging the recent arrest of 150 suspected gspc supporters...
...against Iraq during the siege of Palestinian cities. The greatest source of contempt toward the U.S. in the Arab world is Washington’s one-sided approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rightly or wrongly, Arabs blame the United States every time an Israeli soldier maims a Palestinian civilian. The billions of dollars of U.S. foreign aid that pour into Israel every year and Washington’s refusal to put pressure on Israel when it uses excessive force have led Arabs to believe that the U.S. is complicit in Israel’s crimes...
...impartial trials, there is even deeper cynicism over the likelihood that top military and police bosses will be brought to justice for some of the atrocities they are alleged to have overseen. Even the opening on March 14 of the first in a series of trials against 18 soldiers, civilian officials and militiamen accused of human-rights abuses during East Timor's vote for independence has done little to change that perception. Most of those charged are expendable junior officers, not the generals some have accused of directing the operation. In fact, Megawati has signally failed to prosecute any senior...
...conceived. From U.S.-controlled territory, it could reach any part of the world, wreck the biggest city by blast and heat. Then the radioactive byproducts, drifting with the wind, could turn an area the size of many nations into a silent wilderness...The missilemen are not happy, however. Both civilian and military, they know too well the potential effect on the earth of thermonuclear warfare. They fear that some small, irresponsible nation may get hold of a missile or two and blot out the capital city of a nation that it hates. Or perhaps when the great nations are armed...