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...longer able to credibly maintain that weapons of mass destruction may yet be found in Iraq, the Bush administration has moved to insulate the President from any political fallout from the collapse of his case for war. The White House announced Monday that a commission of inquiry will be appointed to probe the apparent failures of prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq, and would likely report back some time next year. Rather than face mounting pressure to explain the discrepancy between Iraq's actual capability and the "grave and gathering danger" warned of by President Bush and his aides, the White...
...that does not lift a finger to root out the murder and evil from its midst," Sharon said. Soon after he spoke, Sharon sent the Israeli army into Bethlehem, where the bus bomber had lived. Army sources say they arrested five men connected with the attack. But the political fallout of the prisoner swap could keep Israel's military busy in the weeks ahead. The bus attack was carried out by a member of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a subgroup of Arafat's Fatah. Fatah militiamen told TIME they felt pressure to act against Israel to show the Palestinian public...
Looking out over 45 acres of pens with 7,000 head of cattle, feedlot owner Norm Haaland is concerned but philosophical. From his second-story vantage point at TBone Feeders in Shepherd, Mont., he watches corn trucks rumble in to dump loads of feed. He is worried about the fallout from the mad-cow crisis, but his cattlemen customers are more concerned about the recent U.S. decision to allow imports of boxed beef from Canada as long as it comes from cattle younger than 30 months. "The big packers are making a killing up there, buying Canadian cattle from...
ExxonMobil's reigning chief, Lee Raymond, 65, has extended his stay on the job ostensibly to handle fallout from the 1999 merger that created the $230 billion behemoth. But in recent months the Irving, Texas, company has been giving Tillerson and fellow senior V.P. Ed Galante, the man responsible for refining and marketing, more face time with Wall Street. Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Fadel Gheit suggests Tillerson may prevail: "The company's future is predicated on success in oil and gas exploration and production...
...terrorist attack on the al-Muhaya housing enclave in Riyadh on Nov. 8 that killed 18 Muslims has shocked and sickened many Saudi citizens. "Any sympathy [for Osama bin Laden] has more or less evaporated," contends Saudi journalist Tariq Alhomayed. But the rotten public-relations fallout is not likely to alter al-Qaeda's plans. Saudi officials are preparing for the worst as 2 million of the faithful converge next week on the holy city of Mecca to celebrate the Eid ul-Fitr feast. Saudi officials say they dispatched 4,700 extra security forces there last week after foiling...