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...after he was wounded in the war in Afghanistan. During al-Zarqawi's two-month stay in Baghdad, Powell alleged, two dozen "al-Qaeda affiliates" established a cell in the city. According to Powell, al-Zarqawi, whose whereabouts are unknown, provided weapons and money to the murderers of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Jordan last October. Powell showed the U.N. a satellite photo of a camp he claimed al-Zarqawi had set up in northeastern Iraq to produce poisons...
That is not exactly the vision Bush has sold of a new, democratic Iraq. Arab diplomats, however, believe that the White House has come to see the advantage of replacing Saddam with a friendlier strongman rather than with a rainbow coalition of supposed Iraqi democrats. Their calculation: a stable Iraq would be easier for the U.S. to manage after the war ends, require less messy nation building and reduce the chances that whole U.S. Army divisions would have to occupy Iraq for years. "Saner heads are prevailing," says a Western diplomat in the region. "All the talk about remaking...
...According to experts who have spent years trying to peer across the demilitarized zone that isolates North Korea, the short answer is: not yet. "It is still at the level of rhetoric," says one Western diplomat. "It is still theater." Last week, Washington said it was prepared to bolster its bomber force in the Pacific to keep North Korea in check if the U.S. military is occupied in a war with Iraq. But the nations that have most to fear from the North?Japan and South Korea, which harbor U.S. troops and are within range of North Korean ordnance...
...government called it the work of "bad people." "Ruthless killers" would have been more to the point. How else to describe the heavily armed gunmen who staged a roadside ambush in northern Laos last week, killing at least 12 people, including two European tourists and a Chinese national? One diplomat who visited the scene told TIME the attackers clearly wanted a "maximum casualty count...
...property bubble. But such assurances meant little for me as my husband and I struggled to find a new home. We decided to downgrade from a house to an apartment, but even that didn't help much. An almost-done deal fell through because a South Korean diplomat as well as a banker at Standard Chartered suddenly outbid us by at least $1,000?the agent delicately informed me that we were "too small potatoes" to be pinning our hopes on such a nice apartment. Another potential flat, which had cost $3,000 last June, was listed...