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Even if Afghan officials want to help hunt down terrorists, they are woefully underequipped. An Afghan official told TIME that the U.S. experimented with giving satellite phones to provincial security chiefs earlier this year. But the officials, who hadn't been paid in months, used them to run international-call services on Uncle Sam's tab. The Americans took back the phones...
...Even if Afghan officials want to help hunt down terrorists, they are woefully underequipped. An Afghan official told TIME that the U.S. experimented with giving satellite phones to provincial security chiefs earlier this year. But the officials, who hadn't been paid in months, used them to run international-call services on Uncle Sam's tab. The Americans took back the phones...
...Gitmo after he was kidnapped by an Uzbek commander and sold to the Americans for a bounty being offered for al-Qaeda fighters. He was released last July, after his interrogators concluded that he not only had had no contact with Osama bin Laden's group but also hadn't even known 9/11 had happened until they showed him pictures. "I'd like to visit America someday," he says. "Some of the wardens and soldiers became my friends...
...wounded soldiers was very sad. Even sadder is the fact that they are so young and will have to live with their injuries for the rest of their lives. These soldiers do not want to believe that they went to war for no good reason. But if President Bush hadn't gone on this crazy quest, these boys would not have been wounded. The 21year-old would have finished his service and moved on to college. The newlywed would have a normal start of family life, and the new father would be able to run after his daughter instead...
...official at the U.S. Attorney's office in Virginia, which prosecuted Gao, told TIME that Gao hadn't violated any espionage law. In a statement published in Chinese, Gao denied that she ever spied for Taiwan or China. "I never planned to do anything to support the Chinese government and never thought of harming the U.S. government," she wrote, adding bizarrely that her "dream" was to host a radio talk show in China. Genuine human-rights activists find a lesson in the scandal. Says Xiao Qiang, the former executive director of New York-based Human Rights in China, which lobbied...