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...campbell the week's big news? Everyone thought so - until another bomb dropped. A senior diplomat named David Broucher testified about a peculiar conversation he'd had with Kelly in Geneva in February, before Kelly had talked to the BBC. Kelly had told Broucher that if Britain invaded Iraq, he would "probably be found dead in the woods." Kelly was dismayed because he'd told Iraqi scientists nothing would happen if they cooperated with the U.N., and Broucher felt he was he agonizing that he had betrayed his contacts. Even with the precise meaning of Kelly's remark uncertain...
While searching for Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, U.S. special forces in Afghanistan routinely come across something they're not looking for: evidence of a thriving Afghan drug trade. But they're not doing anything about it, antinarcotics experts tell TIME. Several Kabul diplomats familiar with U.S. military operations say that while carrying out searches in eastern and southern Afghanistan--opium-growing areas that are also Taliban strongholds--U.S. soldiers have found hidden caches of narcotics, crude heroin-processing labs and convoys racing across the desert with bundles of hashish and opium, headed for Europe and Central Asia. "If these...
...reached the top levels of the Pentagon. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld doesn't want the already over-stretched 8,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan to become sidetracked from their main goal: to capture and kill terrorists. And chasing drug smugglers could take away allies from the Americans. Diplomats say many of the local commanders the U.S. military relies on for intelligence on al-Qaeda and the Taliban and to provide hired guns are mixed up in the drug business. "Without money from drugs, our friendly warlords can't pay their militias," says a Kabul diplomat. "It's as simple...
Because of his non-confrontational style and willingness to listen, Ford commanded the respect of Harvard’s professors and students alike, earning a reputation as a diplomat rather than an agitator. Above all, he appeared to be a voice of reason in an era of upheaval, keeping a cool head despite the noise around...
...Besides the possibility of the Prague encounter, the claim of an Iraq-bin Laden link rest on three pillars: The fact that "bin Laden associate" Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who runs the Islamist terror network suspected of killing a U.S. diplomat in Jordan, had taken shelter in Baghdad after being wounded in Afghanistan; The fact that the Kurdish Islamist group attacking mainstream pro-U.S. Kurdish groups in northeastern Iraq had received cash and training from al-Qaeda; and Iraqi records show that an Iraqi emissary had held a meeting or meetings with bin Laden representatives in Afghanistan...