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...even without something graver, the Bush Administration believes the old evidence is good enough to justify action. Administration officials argue that the issue of proof has gone topsy-turvy. They say Saddam has to prove he doesn't have banned weapons, but skeptics insist the U.S. needs to prove he is, in fact, hiding them. Hans Blix, the chief inspector hunting biological and chemical weapons, provided the White House with an unanticipated boost when his Jan. 27 report to the Security Council gave Saddam's cooperation low marks and complained that Iraq had shown no "genuine acceptance" of full disarmament...
Many Europeans aren't convinced that Saddam Hussein really poses a graver threat now than the one they have learned to live with since the Gulf War. They feel Bush's indictment of Saddam's brutal character and sins is old news and want to know: What's so dangerous about Iraq today that only war can save us from? Most don't share Bush's obsessive conviction that he already "knows" Saddam Hussein is hiding stockpiles of illicit biological and chemical weapons and is close to obtaining a nuclear one. Of course, many Europeans suspect Saddam has dangerous stuff...
...Yard, which was investigating the discovery of traces of the deadly poison ricin in a north London flat the week before. Seven arrests of North Africans, mostly Algerians, had followed from that discovery, and police believed there could be others involved. But the Manchester raid was to have far graver consequences. It ended not just in four arrrests - one the following day - but in the murder of a policeman. The killing happened after the police had been in the apartment for more than an hour. In a violent struggle, five of the officers were injured, four with knife wounds...
...stance created junk history. The group claims to have discovered nearly 1,000 inaccuracies in his book, 300 of which they submitted to the court as evidence. Many of the alleged mistakes would appear to be unfortunate but hardly dire factual lapses-misspelled names, erroneous dates and cultural misunderstandings. Graver charges include the accusation that Levine fabricated entire interviews-including one with Sugihara's now deceased first wife, Klaudia, whose existence remained unknown even to some of Sugihara's family until they read Levine's book. Levine says he hasn't seen the court document yet but doubts he could...
...risk of nuclear war between major powers still exists, it's less acute now than 15 years ago, thank God. Many people worry about terrorists, and so do I, but then I reflect that terrorists could at worst kill "only" a few tens of millions of us. The even graver environmental problems that could do in all our children are environmental ones, such as global warming and land and water degradation...