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...military leaders in Baghdad; Administration officials told TIME that the intelligence was gleaned from multiple sources, including electronic eavesdropping and reports from a single Iraqi official who had recently turned on Saddam. A senior Jordanian official says tips were also passed to the U.S. by a Jordanian diplomat and Egyptian intelligence agents, who claimed they had identified Saddam's exact location. For days, a senior White House aide says, the CIA had been conducting an all-sources operation to try to track Saddam's movements. On Wednesday they hit pay dirt. According to the aide, at least one CIA source...
...axis of evil, combined with the impending war with Iraq, have acted as a spur to both Iran and North Korea to accelerate their nuclear programs. "If those countries didn't have much incentive or motivation before, they certainly did after the 'axis of evil' statement," says one Western diplomat familiar with the Iranian and North Korean programs. The Administration counters that both programs have been under way for many years. --By Massimo Calabresi
...Economist: “One American diplomat has given warning that a Mexican No could ‘stir up feelings’ against Mexicans in the United States. He draws comparisons with the Japanese-Americans who were interned after 1941, and wonders whether Mexico ‘wants to stir the fires of jingoism during...
Krugman: “Last week The Economist quoted an American diplomat who warned that if Mexico didn’t vote for a U.S. resolution it could ‘stir up feelings’ against Mexicans in the United States. He compared the situation to that of Japanese-Americans who were interned after 1941, and wondered whether Mexico ‘wants to stir the fires of jingoism during...
Something is wrong here. Krugman does attribute the direct quotations from the diplomat to The Economist, but he describes the quotations’ contexts—particularly in the second sentence—as though it is his voice and not The Economist’s. In doing so, he passes off entire sequences of words (e.g. “...compared the situation to that of Japanese-Americans who were interned after 1941, and wondered whether Mexico...”) written by The Economist...