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BUDGET: $450 MILLION Its largely civilian aspirations involve communications, agriculture and meteorology. But it wants to explore the moon...
...Taliban claimed responsibility for a blast last week in which a man wearing an explosives belt leaped onto a Canadian armored vehicle in a crowded Kabul street, killing a soldier and injuring a dozen civilians. The next day, while officials were attending the soldier's funeral, the Taliban struck again. A suicide bomber crashed an explosives-packed taxi into two British army vehicles, killing one soldier, wounding three others and taking the life of an Afghan civilian. A Taliban official, Latif Hakeemi, calling TIME from an undisclosed location, vowed that a wave of suicide attacks will follow. "There...
...Taliban claimed responsibility for a blast last week in which a man wearing an explosives belt leaped onto a Canadian armored vehicle in a crowded Kabul street, killing a soldier and injuring a dozen civilians. The next day, while officials were attending the soldier's funeral, the Taliban struck again. A suicide bomber crashed an explosives-packed taxi into two British army vehicles, killing one soldier, wounding three others and taking the life of an Afghan civilian. A Taliban official, Latif Hakeemi, calling TIME from an undisclosed location, vowed that a wave of suicide attacks will follow. "There...
...would be too difficult to pull off before the June 30 deadline for the transfer of power. Instead, the U.S. wants the new government to be chosen by local caucuses. Ahead of meetings in New York City this week with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Paul Bremer, the U.S. civilian chief in Iraq, said, "We have doubts, as does the Secretary-General, that elections can in fact be called in the time frame of sovereignty to the Iraqi people on June...
...lawyers plan to file a friend-of-the-court brief in Odah v. United States, which seeks to give Guantanamo captives the right to challenge their detention in civilian court. "The Constitution cannot countenance an open-ended presidential power with no civilian review whatsoever," the brief argues, "to try anyone the President deems subject to a military tribunal, whose rules and judges have been selected by the prosecuting authority itself." Did the dissenting military lawyers meet resistance? Said one of the five, Lieut. Commander Charles Swift: "I'm going to characterize it as institutional surprise." The high court is expected...