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...gathering included Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby; Richard Armitage, the barrel-chested Deputy Secretary of State; Paul Wolfowitz, the scholarly hawk from the Pentagon; and John McLaughlin from the CIA. Armitage was enthusiastic about Clarke's plan, according to a senior official. But the CIA was gun-shy. Tenet was a Clinton holdover and thus vulnerable if anything went wrong. His agency was unwilling to take risks; it wanted "top cover" from the White House. The deputies, says a senior official, decided to have "three parallel reviews--one on al-Qaeda, one on the Pakistani political situation...
...believe you," he said. "Leave Baucau?today." He placed the gun back into its holster, yanked me out of the dirt, and then, in a moment of sublime surrealism, looked across to the bay, and said: "Beautiful, no?" Though sweat?or perhaps tears?stung my eyes and clouded my vision, I nodded in agreement. A crumbling Portuguese fort?a remnant from the 400 years Timor spent under Lisbon's rule?presided over a perfect, white sand beach, complete with palms leaning lazily toward the clear waters. In another time, the scene could have been described as idyllic. But at that...
AFGHANISTAN Al-Qaeda Escape Thirteen men killed in a gun battle with Afghan security forces were high-ranking al-Qaeda members who had hours earlier escaped from prison, said Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. He said that the men - 12 Pakistanis and one Kyrgyz national - had been caught late last year, but they had apparently sawn through bars on a prison window and fled the capital Kabul. The firefight took place at an isolated police post at Binizar about 15 km southeast of Kabul. Two government soldiers and one civilian also died in the fighting...
...Thank God I have theater for my therapy. If I don't have theater, I would take a gun and shoot many people." NORMAN ISSA, Arab-Israeli actor with the Arab-Hebrew Theater in Jaffa, an actors' group committed to partnership between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel, on his divided feelings...
INDIA Elections Amid Bloodshed India's Election Commission announced that voting for seats in Kashmir's state assembly would start next month despite continuing bloodshed. India accused Pakistan of not doing enough to curb Islamic militancy after four suspected militants and one Indian army officer died in a gun battle in Rajouri in Indian-administered Kashmir. At least 69 people?Indian security forces, Kashmir militants and civilians?died across Indian Kashmir. And police remained on high alert as 100,000 Hindu pilgrims, above, amassed in the state...