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...year, Bill and Melinda Gates like to take what they call a "learning tour" of the places that civilization has largely forgotten. On Dec. 6 in India, on the most recent of such visits, they left the five-star Taj Mahal Hotel in New Delhi, to which they had flown on their private jet the night before, and took a 20-minute drive to a slum colony in an area called Meera Bagh...
...foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and its former Interior Minister, Otto Schily, could face parliamentary investigations for failing to reveal that they knew about a German national, Khaled el-Masri, who German prosecutors say was abducted allegedly by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity and flown to Afghanistan where he was imprisoned and interrogated for five months. El Masri said he was tortured, and is now suing the CIA and its former director George Tenet over the incident. Some German opposition figures say Schily and Steinmeier tacitly cooperated with the U.S. policy of secret "renditions" by agreeing...
...early on. The terrorists demanded the release of 234 prisoners from Israeli jails. Negotiations were ruled out by the Israelis, but the Germans began fake ones to buy time. In the afternoon, the Black September commander, distinctive in his white hat, insisted that his team and the hostages be flown to Cairo...
...Predator is an unlikely star. In military terms, it is an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV. It was first flown a decade ago and for years was armed with only an unsophisticated camera for intelligence gathering. After the fall of 2000, when Osama bin Laden was spotted in Afghanistan by an unarmed Predator, the U.S. government sped up a program to fit each aircraft with two Hellfire missiles. Awesome sounding but benign looking, the 27-ft.-long Predator is painted a dull gray and shaped like an upside-down spoon with wings. The drone is made of lightweight composite plastic...
...positive detainees had to be released: “The Government has failed to demonstrate to this Court’s satisfaction that the detainee’s illness warrants the kind of indefinite detention usually reserved for spies and murderers.” Pascal was finally flown off of Guantánamo and settled in New York, where her children and her mother later joined...