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...Pakistani Sovereignty. The quixotic ransom note accused Pearl of working for the CIA--a charge vehemently denied by the Journal and the CIA--and demanded that the U.S. release the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef and the Pakistanis it is holding at its base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of terrorist links. The note also insisted that the U.S. deliver the F-16 fighter aircraft it had sold Pakistan before imposing sanctions on the country in 1990 because of its nuclear-weapons program. Kidnapperguy, it seems, hadn't done his homework: the conflict had been...
Over the past month, the United States has begun transferring detainees captured in the Afghanistan conflict to a military base in Cuba. Currently, the camp in Guantanamo Bay, known as “Camp X-Ray,” is holding 158 Afghan fighters. The United States government has been criticized by organizations such as the International Red Cross and Amnesty International for its handling of the prisoners due to the release of photographs from the base and their classification as “unlawful combatants...
...group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty has claimed responsibility for his abduction. Among other demands, the kidnappers have called for the return of Pakistani nationals who were detained by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The group has also called for the release of the Taliban’s former ambassador to Pakistan and the departure of American journalists from Pakistan. The Bush administration has rightly refused to negotiate with the kidnappers or accede to their demands. We deplore the kidnapping and offer our sympathy to Pearl?...
...British used the island of St. Helena to intern their sworn enemy Napoleon Bonaparte. No one is volunteering the South Atlantic as a place of repose for the captured fighters of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. So, for the moment, the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, remains the "least worst" solution (as Donald Rumsfeld put it) for sequestering the 158 detainees and several hundred more expected to follow. U.S. military engineers have been working overtime to construct temporary housing that is safe, secure and hygienic. The quarters have been outfitted with hot showers, prayer mats, and cells with...
...benefits of the division of labor. Instead of flowing to those jobs that will produce the most valuable goods for consumers, labor would be allocated according to the politicized vagaries of some kind of official bargaining process. Who would gain under this framework? If the experience of Cuba, North Korea, Soviet Russia and Communist China is any guide...