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...over a secure system. At the briefing on Monday, Aug. 6--a day when the Texas heat would reach 100[degrees]--Bush received a 1 1/2-page document, which, according to Rice, was an "analytic report" on al-Qaeda. Included was a mention that al-Qaeda might be tempted to hijack airliners, perhaps so that they might use hostages to secure the release of an al-Qaeda leader or sympathizer. Rice was not present but discussed the briefing with Bush immediately after it had ended, as she always does...
...thought would have been that such a sweep would lead to a massive hue and cry over "profiling" of Muslims. I would have been disinclined to push the memo upstairs. To justify such a sweep would have required far more than knowing that bin Laden was possibly trying to hijack a plane...
...therefore unnecessary and likely to exacerbate the situation; because of its composition, its report is likely to be very critical of Israel. The U.N. has an abysmal record of impartiality when it comes to Israel, and the planned mission is likely to be another attempt by Arab nations to hijack the U.N. in their continued efforts to delegitimize the Jewish state...
...than a decade. By the weekend Cheney aides were scrambling to arrange a meeting between the Vice President and Palestinian officials. An Administration official told TIME that Bush decided to send special envoy Anthony Zinni back to the region partly because "there was a danger that the violence could hijack the Cheney trip. We thought it was useful to show we were dealing with all these issues." After privately chiding Sharon for his campaign against Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. last week openly denounced his incursion into Ramallah. "The Israelis crossed a line," says a senior Administration...
...group searching for the least common liberal denominator, like the proposed Progressive Alliance, will only conflate their unique causes and blur the distinctions that make these groups so valuable. Even worse, if one narrow interest were able to hijack control of the Alliance, it would risk weakening many of Harvard’s progressive groups all at once...