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Rumsfeld has also exhibited a frightening disregard for human rights and international law, sanctioning the torture and degradation of numerous prisoners of war in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. Sexual humiliation, waterboarding, and the use of dogs were but a few of the innumerable cruel crimes perpetrated by the U.S. military at the Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay detainment camps. The alleged subsequent cover-up within the DoD only further betrayed Rumsfeld’s authorization of and apathy towards the brutal mistreatment of foreign fugitives...
...Khanfar: There is no secret. There is no direct link between us and Al Qaeda to receive a tape. No one from them phones and calls and says, "Please, I am going to bring you a tape at this moment in time, so prepare for me to drop it wherever." We are a TV station. We are not an intelligence agency. In all cases, we received them through people we do not know. We cannot figure out who has delivered these tapes. If somebody brings me material, and I feel that this material is a scoop, I will...
...agricultural and manufactured exports; by hewing more closely to free-trade policies the WTO requires of its members, it may also be able to attract additional foreign investment in everything from factories to petrochemical plants, fueling job growth. (In the first 10 months of this year, foreign direct investment in Vietnam was estimated at $6.5 billion, surpassing the $6.1 billion total for all of last year.) "The WTO is sort of the stamp of approval that many, many large companies have been waiting for," says Tim Tucker, country manager for Ford Vietnam, which has an assembly plant outside Hanoi. "They...
Corrie went to Gaza under the auspices of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a group that, according to its Web site, is “a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.” These “methods” usually take the form of sending American students to disrupt Israeli military activity including the demolition of Palestinian homes—some of which have been built to hide smuggling tunnels used to bring explosives for suicide bombers...
Getting out of Iraq will require the sort of hard choices between interests and ideals that the Bush Administration has been historically reluctant to make. The Baker group is considering a series of proposals that will include calling for intensive regional diplomacy, such as direct, high-level talks with Iran and Syria--something the Bush team has resisted for months. Most significant, the commission plans to outline a plan for redeploying--that is to say, pulling out--some U.S. troops over the next year. The group is also considering telling the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad that U.S. troops...