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...more than a year, George Bush stood by CIA Director George Tenet, dismissing critics who said the agency failed at its core mission--preventing attacks against the homeland. But loyalty is a two-way street for this White House, and since Bush began making his case for war with Iraq, his aides--particularly the hard-line ones--have pressed Tenet to join the march. For the President's war speech in Cincinnati last week, Bush aides badgered the CIA to declassify more intelligence on Saddam Hussein's ties to Osama bin Laden. As a result, Bush was able to disclose...
...After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the ensuing horror found expression in the most traditional Afghan art form?the Oriental rug. Two Afghan tribal groups, the Chahar Aimaq and the Baloch, expanded their color palette and changed their subject matter to reflect the jarring reality that their homeland had become a battlefield. Over the next decade, they produced carpets featuring rocket launchers, machine guns, bombs, and helicopter gunships. In lesser numbers, these carpets are still produced. Collectors describe them as a vital emotional response to the country's devastation, souvenirs for departing Soviet soldiers, and profit engines...
...true Social Security reform has already been buried under the nasdaq avalanche. Beyond that, it all comes down to the numbers: a 51-49 G.O.P. Senate would put Mississippi Republican Trent Lott in charge of the mood and message once again. That makes Enron hearings less likely and Homeland Security legislation more so. But if all the dead-heat races break for the Republicans, that would yield something closer to real legislative control. All it would take is the help of a few switch-hitting Democrats to give the G.O.P. the 60 votes needed to move legislation without risk...
...which the French oil tanker Limburg exploded in waters off Yemen. Although investigators are still probing the cause of the blast, European officials believe it was a terrorist attack by an explosive-laden skiff - similar to the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole, also off Yemen, ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden and an area where his movement remains popular. The tanker blast came a day after the Qatari al-Jazeera cable network broadcast what it claimed was an audio tape from bin Laden warning of attacks on Western economic interests...
...combat veteran, I believe that if we do not go after Saddam, we will one day face a weapon of mass destruction from Iraq in our homeland. We need to take the initiative, with or without international support. I was in Hiroshima in 1950, and there the horror was visible five years after the bombing. We don't ever want to see that in this country. It would make the destruction of the World Trade Center look like a church picnic. ANDY EMERY San Marcos, Calif...