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...national political stage during the 1998 impeachment of President Clinton, when he publicly offered $1 million for compromising information about the private lives of prominent Republicans, seeking to expose Clinton’s tormentors as hypocrites. His investigation revealed that Representative Bob Barr, a chief Clinton foe and fervent pro-lifer, had paid for an ex-wife’s abortion. It also raised infidelity allegations that caused Representative Bob Livingston, the heir apparent to Newt Gingrich as speaker of the house, to resign. As he told the audience in Sanders, when The New York Times phoned...
...city dubbed "Londonistan" for its large population of fervent Islamists, British security forces have done little since 9/11 to quell provocateurs like al-Muhajiroun, which is widely suspected of influencing young men to join the jihad. Many of the MAGNIFICENT 19 stickers plastered on lampposts and walls across Britain have been scratched off by authorities, but police rarely disrupt al-Muhajiroun's stalls or meetings. Last month police raided the homes of the group's leaders, Sheik Omar Bakri Muhammad and Anjem Choudary, but both men remain at liberty...
...different Palestinian constituencies and tolerating, rather than directing terror, but preventing the emergence of a new leadership with whom Israel might reach a deal. Still others see expelling him as a mistake that would remove the possibility of negotiations with the Palestinians for years to come. But even among fervent advocates of his ouster, few believe that it would bring an end to Israel?s troubles any time soon. And Israel?s leaders will take U.S. concerns as the reason for avoiding action right...
Iraq, like Gaul, is divided into three parts--and the U.S. has more serious pacification problems, and a less vivid set of pacification options, than Caesar did. The Bush Administration says the country is largely quiet--but a successful guerrilla war doesn't require much more than a fervent handful of fighters. In Iraq there are on average a dozen attacks against American soldiers each day. There are countless acts of sabotage. There is massive theft of oil, copper (from power lines) and electrical equipment. And there are the now weekly high-profile terrorist acts, like the bombing...
...Iraq, like Gaul, is divided into three parts-and the U.S. has more serious pacification problems, and a less vivid set of pacification options, than Caesar did. The Bush Administration says the country is largely quiet-but a successful guerrilla war doesn't require much more than a fervent handful of fighters. In Iraq there are on average a dozen attacks against American soldiers each day. There are countless acts of sabotage. There is massive theft of oil, copper (from power lines) and electrical equipment. And there are the now weekly high-profile terrorist acts, like the bombing...