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...first document, a memo really, defends the legality and propriety of the detention and interrogation program, giving a peek at how it has operated and why it has been invaluable. The second document (both can be found on the DNI's website is a compilation of the bios of the 14 CIA captives being sent to the U.S.'s Guantanamo Bay detention facility to await trial by military tribunal - and a possible execution if convicted. Though much biographical information about the terrorists in question has been previously disclosed, today's document musters it all in one place...
...after he was rebuffed in several attempts to enter the U.S., "in late 2000 he tried to convince a U.S. citizen in San Diego via e-mail to marry him to gain entry... but [lead hijacker Mohammad] Atta convinced him to abandon the idea." Just before his capture, the document says, bin al-Shibh had identified four operatives for an attack on London's Heathrow Airport. Indeed, several of the detainees are asserted to have been planning or close to executing new attacks at the time of their capture - assertions clearly intended to buttress the U.S.' justification for holding these...
...Darwin's basic findings, which Pope John Paul II in 1996 called "more than a hypothesis." Moreover, advocates of the teaching in U.S. schools of intelligent design - which holds that nature is so complex that it must be God's doing - should not count on any imminent Holy See document or papal pronouncement to help boost their cause. This weekend's private retreat is an annual gathering of the Pope's former theology students to freely discuss one topic of interest, without the aim of reaching any set conclusion...
...gathering of experts on evolution and creation called in to advise the Holy Father," he told TIME shortly after his arrival in Rome. "This is just a former professor having an informal gathering with his old students. There has never been a subgroup that produced a document. We've never issued a statement...
...Beyond any eventual Vatican document specifically on evolution, the debate over Darwin may arise in the Church's ongoing battle on bioethics. In a speech last week at a Catholic conference in Rimini, Italy - a sort of public warmup for the high-stakes private lecture he will give at Castel Gandolfo - Sch?nborn condemned what he called "scientism," or the failure of those in the scientific community to recognize that their findings can't provide all the answers...