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...tough talk: Saddam's envoy Izzat, above, lashed out with a typically Iraqi put-down INSULT OF THE WEEK "Curse Be Upon Your Mustache!" An Iraqi diplomat unleashes a hairy bit of invective...
...Iraq pitches fighters loyal to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which rules the eastern part of the territory liberated from Saddam Hussein in 1991, against Ansar, a small cadre of homegrown Islamic militants supported, trained and reinforced by Osama bin Laden's organization. And today, as a Bush administration envoy met Iraqi opposition leaders at Erbil, some 150 miles north of Halabja, Ansar played rough...
...controlled by government forces. He detonated his charges when confronted by government troops at a roadside checkpoint, killing two soldiers, the taxi driver and himself. The attack coincided with a conference of Iraqi opposition organizations on a post-Saddam political order, attended by Zalmay Khalilzad, President Bush's special envoy to the Iraqi opposition. Though believed to have been simply coincidental, the timing was poignant: Khalizad had come to address the first umbrella gathering of mostly-exiled opposition groups to be held inside Iraq...
...What really shocked participants was that Roh's envoy made it clear South Korea is not prepared to exert any kind of diplomatic pressure on the North, the kind of pressure the U.S. thinks could peacefully halt the North's nuclear program. Says one U.S. academic in the talks: "Do they understand that in the long run, the alternative is a nuclear Japan, and in the short term the alternative is a U.S. strike against Yongbyon...
...Nevertheless Washington has made it clear in recent weeks that it is determined to get to the truth. In December, George W. Bush sent a personal envoy to Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri to underline the importance he attached to finding the culprits in the Papua killings. With Megawati's consent, four FBI agents were dispatched to Indonesia, arriving in Jakarta on Jan. 23 and traveling to Papua earlier this month to begin an inquiry into the attack. The FBI has conducted two previous probes into the matter but lacked the authority until now to complete a thorough investigation...