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Last week, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and real estate developer Larry Silverstein restarted the on-again off-again negotiations over control of Ground Zero. The last round ended a couple of weeks before with the future of the new World Trade Center still in limbo and the planned April groundbreaking for the so-called Freedom Tower still in doubt. For four and half years now, the debate over Ground Zero has always been colorful - with "greedy" the preferred insult thrown around - but it hasn't been easy to keep up with all the legal, political...
...truth, Pataki. Technically, it's the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that literally owns Ground Zero. But the Port Authority's board is controlled by the governors of New York and New Jersey, and Pataki has been the frontman for the World Trade Center's reconstruction. Still, thanks to his lease on the site, Silverstein himself holds the most important card...
Later we moved by car and then by foot into Monrovia to see how far ECOMOG troops on the ground had advanced behind their air and artillery attacks. We were walking past a small airport called Spriggs Payne, held that morning by Taylor's rebels, when we suddenly discovered ourselves, with our N.P.F.L. bodyguard, behind ECOMOG lines. A group of Guinean and Ghanaian soldiers ordered us to accompany them to their base camp just west of Spriggs Payne. "Look what we've got!" shouted one. "Taylor's writers -- and we got us a rebel!" As more ECOMOG soldiers gathered...
...soldiers disarmed the N.P.F.L. guard and stripped him to his underpants and socks. They tied his hands behind his back, threw him to the ground and began kicking him unmercifully. The assault was interrupted by a barrage of N.P.F.L. gunfire nearby. The unit commander, a Ghanaian captain, said accusingly, "You see? You've brought us an ambush...
...While Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and a line of U.S. generals hit the airwaves to deny the allegations and counter that the images had been staged, no one had heard from the men on the ground who'd stormed the complex, nor from the man the world was being told had been freed. That is until today. In a palace complex deep within a U.S. base, the Iraqi commander who led the raid and the liberated hostage both spoke to TIME, giving their first public accounts of that day's fateful events and largely confirming the U.S. claims...