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...terrorists. "The feeling here," says a senior French investigator, "is that the Americans are doing an excellent job in police and intelligence terms." Not everything goes according to plan. High-tech listening devices are of no use if nobody sends an electronic message. "The bad guys," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad, "have been taught that talking on cell phones or sat phones is a no-no. Now they are delivering messages on motorcycles." Raids on Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan aimed at finding al-Qaeda men have been compromised by leaks from local police and intelligence services...
...Most observers think a weakened Dutch government will be less willing and able to take a strongly anti-enlargement position in Brussels. "You've got to wonder whether a caretaker government could hold up a process widely thought to be crucial to the Union's future," says one E.U. diplomat. "But frankly, nobody now knows what the Dutch are going to do." Indeed, the uncertainty in the Hague, which came just days before the Irish referendum on the Nice Treaty, is another reminder of how easily the timetable for enlargement can be wrecked by domestic politics. Even if the current...
...weeks ago, North Korea vindicated Bush in spades, when the country's second most-powerful official told U.S. diplomat James Kelly that Pyongyang has, indeed, been running a secret nuclear weapons program, in violation of a 1994 agreement with the U.S. According to an account of Kelly's Pyongyang talks revealed to CNN, Kang Suk-ju told the U.S. official something to the effect of, "Your president called us a member of the axis of evil ... Your troops are deployed on the Korean Peninsula ... Of course, we have a nuclear program...
...WEITZ, 79, proudly populist fashion designer; of cancer; in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Among the first to engage in licensing agreements for the production of neckties, men's cologne and socks, Weitz was also, to the puzzlement of fashionistas, a historian and an author, whose works include a biography of Hitler diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop. He was the father of filmmakers Paul and Chris Weitz, who directed About a Boy and American...
...With the right amount of money, whoever you are, you can do anything," says one Western diplomat based in Dhaka. "If 150 militants want to come in here and buy themselves new passports and new identities, stock up on any weapons they might want and maybe do a little refresher training before heading off again, there's nothing to stop them." Indeed, December was a repeat visit for the Mecca, according to the HUJI source. In June 2001, he says the boat sailed from Karachi to Chittagong with 50 other militants who had completed their training in bin Laden...