Word: confirmation
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...American intelligence officials believe the new documents may confirm their worst suspicions of the Iraqi weapons program. For example, before the Kuwait invasion, the CIA concluded in a secret report that Iraq could cobble together at least one crude nuclear device and detonate it in the western Iraqi desert in a demonstration explosion "to shake the teeth of Saddam's Arab neighbors," as a former senior agency official puts it. Before the latest revelations were made, U.N. officials believed that Baghdad had produced more than a ton of anthrax and botulinum toxin, a small portion of which they suspect...
McVeigh: [They] take whatever the government feeds them, parrot it as the truth and don't try to confirm it on their...
Clinton administration officials say they have U.S. spy plane photo evidence of what could be a mass grave near Srebrenica. Some 10,000 Muslim men have been missing sinceSerbs swept through the region since last month. The photo may serve to confirm an earlier account by eyewitnesses from the eastern enclaves who claimed to have escaped from a warehouse where Serbs took refugees outside in large groups to be shot at the edge of mass graves. Assistant Secretary of State John Shattuck said today a fact-finding trip to central and northeastern Bosnia last week turned up numerous eyewitness accounts...
What would a fish with feet look like? It could easily resemble the Acanthostega. Mineralized bones of this strange creature, unearthed in Greenland in 1987, tend to confirm the notion that fish did not crawl onto shores on their fins, says paleontologist Michael Coates of University College, London. Instead they probably developed limbs and feet that they used in the water for millions of years before they were capable of colonizing the land...
...William Howard, who ruled that an accidental contact between a juror and a member of the Smith family--apparently in a hotel laundry room--was of no importance. Sara Singleton, grandmother of Susan Smith's ex-husband, said "it was innocent. . . it was stupid," in comments that seemed to confirm she was the family member in question. The sentencing phase of the trial, which began today, could last up to a week. Smith was found guilty of two counts of murder last Saturday...