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...involving ourselves in internecine politics," insists Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, "including politics backed by guns." So why did U.S. aircraft recently conduct two bombing missions outside the eastern city of Khost, aimed at militias opposed to Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai? In an interview, General Tommy Franks, commander in chief of U.S. Central Command, told TIME that the bombings were a response to attacks on American forces. As Franks put it, there were some "bad guys" in the region. When friendly Afghan forces conducted a sweep, they were attacked. "Then our people went with them...
FRANKS: I had cause to believe over a period of time that there might be puddles and pockets of--I call them bad guys...So I suggested that some of the Afghans we work with conduct a sweep. When they conducted the sweep, they got shot at. So they came back and reported this. Then our people went with them, and our people were shot at. And so when our people get shot at, they will take the action that is appropriate on the scene, and that's exactly what they did in this case...
...Murdoch's News Corp. wrote off $909 million on contracts to broadcast such sports as Major League baseball. Murdoch's BSkyB also wrote off the value of its investment in KirchPayTV - to the tune of a whopping $1.4 billion. This week in Britain, broadcaster ITV Digital is expected to conduct frantic talks with the English Football League, to renegotiate a $446 million rights contract that is now threatening the financial health of the strapped service, co-owned by Granada and Carlton. "The market's been plagued by excessive optimism," says Bill Gerrard, a specialist in sports finance at Leeds University...
...rated by Freedom House as one of the most repressive in the world —worse than Libya and Syria, worse even than China. They have been arrested for “disrespect,” for “dangerousness,” for “conduct that is in manifest contradiction with the norms of socialist morality.” And none of them will be teaching at Harvard next semester...
...Osama bin Laden - "or we will have failed." Trent Lott, through his spokesman, was very upset; Bush, through his, played it cooler, with Ari Fleischer drily informing reporters Thursday that "individuals are free to focus on any one person if they think that's the best way to conduct foreign policy. That's a different approach than the president...