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...Cuba's struggling economy, eggs are often a luxury for many families. But they might be more plentiful if the government could import them more cheaply from the nearby U.S. - which has kept an economic embargo against the communist island for four decades. So it was little wonder that Cuban President Fidel Castro made a point of dropping by the American Egg Board's stand at the Havana food exposition that started yesterday. "How fast can you make them?" he asked New Yorker Howard Kelmer, 64, who is the Board's senior representative - and who holds the Guinness Book...
...after Castro left, Kelmer confided that he was already tired of flipping huevos. "I want to get out of here and go sightseeing," said Kelmer, who had never been to Cuba before. And, of course, he added: "I want to buy some cigars...
Investigators soon realized al-Faruq was a man with connections. An al-Qaeda prisoner at America's Camp X Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, also had al-Faruq's number. The same intelligence report says the CIA traced a number dialed by Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, an Indonesian JI militant arrested for suspected involvement in last December's Singapore bomb plot, back to al-Faruq. In May, the report continues, the CIA found that Ibin al-Khattab, the late Chechen commander with ties to al-Qaeda, had once placed a call to al-Faruq on his cell phone...
...President was John F. Kennedy. The country was Cuba, and the nuclear-capable missiles aimed at the U.S., captured on satellite photos, were plain to see. War in that instance was averted in large measure by the very nakedness of the threat. But it's just that sort of certainty--some incontrovertible evidence apparent to all--for which much of the world clamors while Washington considers a new assault on Iraq...
...George Bush doesn't need any Cuba-style pictures to prove Saddam is an intolerable risk. He knows it "no doubt," as Cheney repeated. Now the rest of the world has to decide if it does too. --Reported by John F. Dickerson, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller/Washington and J.F.O. McAllister/London