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...Life and Law You asked, appropriately enough, "Does the Koran Condone Killing?" [Sept. 13], and then focused primarily on the beheading of hostages by insurgents in Iraq. Why not ask whether the Bible condones killing and explore the bombing, shelling and deaths of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq? From the fire bombings of Dresden and Tokyo to the nuclear holocausts of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the U.S. appears to have no particular scruples about causing civilian deaths. Dennis Green Alameda...
...only “the President.” If this legislation were to pass, its entire structure and implementation would be under jurisdiction of the President. It would be at the sole discretion of the President to determine what constitutes “satisfactory” performance of civilian service; it would be the choice of the President what groups would serve in active military service. The President alone would be arbiter of how much (and even if) those performing their “national service” would be paid (which casts the “hardship?...
...passed more than 40 laws and over 300 articles to bring Turkish legislation and government structures in line with European norms. The death penalty has been abolished, press restrictions have been lifted, and the overweening power of the country's military has been at least partly ratcheted back - a civilian now heads the country's powerful National Security Council. The government has tightened fiscal policy, reformed banking laws and helped bring inflation near 10%. While Turkish poverty remains a worry, an impact assessment published last week by the European Commission found that both Turkey and the E.U. stood to gain...
...produce a furious backlash in the Iraqi public, even when Iraqi troops are used on the frontlines. Keeping to the January deadline would require conducting the election campaign amid bloody battles in some Iraqi towns, whose political effect would likely to be to radicalize the views of the civilian population...
Officials from the U.S. military and the interim Iraqi government are playing down the significance of the intelligence estimate. "It says what we've been saying for months," a Pentagon civilian says. "There's a 1-in-3 chance of civil war." Officials insist that a sufficient portion of Iraq will be pacified in order to hold elections as scheduled in January 2005. But the insurgents have shown an impressive ability to regenerate. Jeffrey White, a former senior analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency, says there could be "as many as 100,000 insurgents," including those who provide food, clothing...