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This summer, Robert Novak published the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative. Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson, is a former U.S. envoy to Iraq who had publicly criticized the President for falsely claiming that Iraq attempted to purchase uranium from Niger...
...addition, Iraqi intelligence documents uncovered last April by reporters for the Toronto Star and London’s Sunday Telegraph confirm that an al Qaeda envoy visited Baghdad in March 1998. The papers were found in the bombed-out headquarters of the Mukhabarat, Saddam’s intelligence service. Using Liquid Paper, the Iraqis had tried to cover up all references in the documents to bin Laden; but by applying dried fluid journalists were able to reveal his name in three separate places...
...danger posed by Saddam—contains a letter outlining a proposed visit by a bin Laden operative to Iraq from Sudan. Baathist officials hoped the trip would allow them “to gain the knowledge of the message from bin Laden and to convey to his envoy an oral message from us to bin Laden.” And what would that “oral message” concern? According to the letter, it “would relate to the future of [Iraq’s] relationship with him, bin Laden,” and ideally...
...negotiator, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, that the U.S. had left the North no choice but to declare itself a nuclear power--and that Pyongyang would soon conduct a nuclear test. The next day Kelly recounted what he had been told. As China's envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, grew visibly ruffled, Kim was obliged to repeat his threats...
...standard operating procedure for North Korea, which has calculatedly tried to frighten the international community into appeasing it with aid. But the tactic may have backfired. When six-way talks resumed the next day, Kelly recounted to his startled tablemates what he'd been told. As China's envoy, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, grew visibly ruffled, Kim was obliged to repeat his threats. China, Russia, South Korea and Japan "heard what was said and saw how this business is handled" by the North, says the American diplomat. As a result, the remaining rivulets of goodwill that Pyongyang...