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...many in the U.S. military have been scornful about the potential of the diverse and fractious Iraqi opposition to mount a military challenge to the regime. Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni was even more upfront in his parting testimony on Capitol Hill, warning that overthrowing Saddam would create a dangerous power vacuum. Remember, before 1991, the U.S. had seen Saddam as a strategic counterweight to Iran, and the fact that the majority of Iraq's population is either Shiite Muslim or Kurdish had raised concerns that bringing down the regime could presage a breakup of the country that would destabilize...
...quite such extremis. But we are in a situation of critical danger. Newly discovered documents in Kabul confirm that al-Qaeda was working on chemical and biological poisons, and the group was eagerly pursuing materials to build an atomic weapon. No one doubts bin Laden would use it. Taliban leader Mullah Omar declared last Thursday that his objective was the "extinction of America": "The plan is going ahead...this will happen within a short period of time; keep in mind this prediction...
...anchor Tom Brokaw, the New York Post and Senator Tom Daschle. The discovery of a fourth letter, this one sent to Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, and the probable existence of a fifth, sent to the State Department, could revitalize a case that has seemed in danger of stalling. The Leahy letter was unopened and had yet to be irradiated, which should give epidemiologists the ability to trace the lineage of the spores inside. The postmark, which showed that the letter was sent on Oct. 9, the same day the Daschle letter was mailed, may help postal inspectors locate...
...with a droll anecdote. The son of a Brahmin family marries a low-caste woman and forfeits his social standing. He is a maharaja's tax clerk who, influenced by Gandhi's politics of poverty, makes false account entries in favor of poor landowners. Unwelcome at home and in danger of prosecution, the upstart takes cover as a mute beggar. A touring W. Somerset Maugham is impressed by this bogus act of mystical piety and is inspired to write his best selling novel, The Razor's Edge. The faker becomes a celebrity and names his son Willie Somerset Chandran...
...acquiring antitank weapons that could blow up the heavy canisters in which radioactive spent fuel from nuclear reactors is transported through populated areas," wrote George Bunn and Fritz Steinhausler at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation in the October issue of Arms Control Today. "Despite the danger, no multilateral treaty requires that nuclear material and facilities be protected from such attacks." Jürgen Sattari, spokesman for a Bremen-based environmental group called Robin Wood, said the November protesters had a simpler idea in mind: an earlier phase-out of nuclear power in Germany. "Our goal...