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...ensure that Iraq continues to defy them. In July 2001, his administration refused to sign the enforcement protocol of the Biological Weapons Convention and has continued undermining negotiations since then. Earlier this summer, during talks between Iraqi and U.N. officials regarding the return of weapons inspectors, Bush was eager to reject Iraqi offers to readmit inspectors in return for the termination of economic sanctions...
While intelligence officials have long believed that Hambali ran the day-to-day operations of JI, al-Faruq told the CIA that Ba'asyir was just as eager to work with al-Qaeda, even dispatching his aides to procure weapons and explosives for al-Faruq and his cronies. Last week Ba'asyir repeated his longstanding denial of connection with terrorist groups. "I don't have any link whatsoever with al-Qaeda," he told TIME, "but if al-Qaeda's struggle is for the best interest of Islam, I support...
Robert Dalias was convinced he had a better mousetrap--a new kind of switching device that U.S. telephone companies seemed eager to buy from his start-up company, WaveSmith Networks. But as the telecom crash washed over his customers and prospects, one after another canceled or postponed orders. His venture-capital investors started making nervous noises. So Dalias looked abroad for help. Despite having a meager track record and no multinational distribution channels, the CEO landed his first big sale, to NetOne Systems, a leading tech distributor and systems integrator based in Tokyo, and that success helped Dalias close...
...inspections, it was now ready to submit to them "without conditions." That left the war camp in an awkward dilemma. Can you convince the world it needs to get rid of a bully if the bully suddenly appears to be playing nice? And it left those less than eager for an invasion with the responsibility to prove exactly what, if anything, Saddam has conceded...
This afternoon eager first-years will flock to the first open house of the year for Harvard’s Institute of Politics...