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...back that elegizes his pet dog. Here he plays Tony Fate, a gentleman thief whose latest heist, a handful of black diamonds, gets him in trouble with some mean malefactors (Hawaii-born Mark Dacascos and Kelly Hu). The black diamonds turn out to be plutonium pellets that could Destroy the World. DMX has charisma enough for the job, performing tough scenes and teary ones with equal facility...
Powell makes U.S. case for war to U.N. Security Council. NATO reaches deadlock between U.S. and France, Germany and Belgium over whether to protect Turkey in case of an Iraqi attack. Inspectors find missiles made illegal under the Gulf War ceasefire, which Saddam agrees to destroy. Blix reports that Iraq is largely cooperating with inspections. France, Germany and Russia issue step-by-step plan for disarmament as an alternative to American war plans. Millions demonstrate around the world from Feb. 14-15 against a possible U.S. attack on Iraq...
...first installment of the promised "shock-and-awe" air campaign that U.S. commanders had held off on for the past 48 hours. Like the attempted "decapitation" strike that targeted Saddam and the multi-layered propaganda effort that followed, the latest bombardment of Saddam's power centers is to destroy the enemy's will to resist (and capacity to communicate), rather than to physically eliminate his fighting forces...
...infrastructure will have been decimated by war—requires an enormous commitment. But after its failure in Afghanistan, we doubt the Bush administration’s will to follow through. Before war began in Afghanistan, the President’s public goals were to dismantle the Taliban government, destroy terrorist training facilities and aid in the humanitarian relief and rebuilding necessary to improve the quality of life of the Afghan people. Little more than a year later, however, funding for Afghanistan’s restoration is conspicuously absent from the Bush budget. This should give pause to those...
...would mistake these camps for three-star hotels. Nothing is easy here. Blinding, unseasonably fierce dust storms are turning the sky apocalyptic orange. The wind and sand blast the skin and destroy tents. Rain turns the desert into sludge. Troops wash their clothes in cardboard boxes lined with plastic bags, but socks and underwear can go a fortnight between washings. "We're not getting paid to smell pretty," says Lance Corporal Jason Wilebski, 19, queuing for a haircut. In these cramped quarters, tempers chafe. Some soldiers are not coping at all. One young man shot himself in the foot...