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...understand just how misleading chatter can be, you have only to go back to Colin Powell's presentation at the United Nations in 2003, the one in which he incorrectly - if plausibly - claimed Saddam Hussein had held on to his weapons of mass destruction. Among other pieces of intelligence, Powell's case turned on an intercepted voice communication between two Iraqi officials. But as we now know, the two were only speculating - in complete ignorance...
...Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which operates the Svalbard vault together with the Norwegian government and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center in Sweden. (Luckily, a group of farsighted Iraqi scientists sent a sample of their seeds to an international seed bank in Syria, before Saddam Hussein's defeat...
...Time Ein el Hilweh is the largest Palestinian camp in Lebanon, with 70,000 inhabitants. Built just outside the southern city of Sidon, it is surrounded by walls and watchtowers and looks like a postapocalyptic penal colony from a Mad Max movie - albeit one decorated with posters of Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and Yasser Arafat. The main Palestinian political parties Hamas and Fatah have carved the camp up like gang turf, leaving a no-man's-land as a haven for dangerous jihadist groups...
...coach commanding everyone's attention in the center of the room was no amateur part-timer looking to relive his glory days on the court. He was none other than the President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, the most watched man in the world, who had come before his country and its government during prime time to say, "Come on, team, we can play better. When the buzzer sounds again, we're going to go out there and play our game, like the champions we know we are." (See the top 10 greatest speeches in history...
Edan finally brought the tablets from Peru to the Baghdad museum about three weeks ago, adding them to more than 4,000 Iraqi artifacts the museum has recovered since the chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. Peru appears to be the farthest that purloined Iraqi treasures have traveled. Most other recovered items have come from neighboring countries. More than 2,500 artifacts have returned to Iraq from Jordan, along with more than 760 from Syria. Many stolen items have made it to further west. Thirteen pieces were found in Italy; and at least another dozen have...