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...Israeli daily Haaretz has some bad news for their Egyptian neighbors: "Colin Powell is leaning toward a decision to cancel his plans to deliver a speech on United States policy in the Middle East containing suggestions for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement," the paper reported Thursday. "American diplomats sent a message to Sharon this week saying that the administration has no plans to launch a Middle East diplomatic initiative in the near future, and that any steps will be coordinated with Israel in advance." As ever in the Middle East, somebody's bound to be disappointed...
...suggest that al-Jazeera will only report U.S.-friendly information. Last week, Washington was infuriated when Al-Jazeera aired Osama bin Laden’s most recent speech. In this diatribe, bin Laden expresses satisfaction with the Sept. 11 attacks and predicts further outbreaks of violence. Secretary of State Colin Powell lamented that al-Jazeera was giving too much airtime to “vitriolic irresponsible kinds of statements.” But Al-Jazeera maintained that it was simply doing its journalistic duty. As Ibhrahim Hilal, al-Jazeera’s chief editor, stated...
...slow. Pakistan, meanwhile, is working overtime to persuade the Taliban to ditch its leader, Mullah Omar, and his close comrade Osama bin Laden, and to join a broadly-based government. Pakistani officials reportedly held meetings in Islamabad with Taliban foreign minister Mullah Mutawakil even as Secretary of State Colin Powell was visiting the city on Tuesday, and its efforts to salvage an "acceptable" Taliban minus the Al Qaeda connection are likely to intensify. Powell and Musharraf on Tuesday both emphasized a role for moderate Taliban elements in a future government, although the Northern Alliance immediately rejected any Taliban presence...
...increases the proportion of military policy-makers who advocate the status quo, but rather the encouragement of progressive thinkers to join and rise to the pinnacle of the military elite. After all, one of the foremost advocates of the softening of restrictions on gays was current Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, a man who places a high value on civil liberties...
...players who haven’t played a lot for us, Marc Buan, Colin Eyre and Charles Morrow, they made the difference today,” Kerr said...