Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the writers on the merits of the issue, just to ponder at their use of Marx's saying that democracy provides freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. The writers use this saying to support their argument. But Marx said that as a critique of the human rights idea, as manifested in the French Declaration of the Rights...
...Even if authorities do ultimately arrest the suspects in custody, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to bring to justice everyone responsible for the bombing. "A professional terrorist operation is usually compartmentalized," explains TIME correspondent Douglas Waller. "Many of those involved have no idea of the identity of the people on either side of them in the chain, let alone of the author of the attack...
...Thursday that it was scaling back the manhunt for him, in part because of the personnel requirements of the Africa investigation. The Rudolph task force will be cut from 200 agents to 80, and its headquarters will be moved from a temporary encampment to a local warehouse -- a good idea, since the fugitive recently laid in a six-month supply of food to his hide out in the craggy forests of Macon County...
Chirac argued forcefully that Mladic and Karadzic must be brought to justice. High-level French sources deny that the two Presidents explicitly discussed the idea of assassinating the two Bosnian Serbs, but they admit the possibility was seriously examined by French and American intelligence services. Indeed, according to a senior NATO military officer, undercover French troops literally had Mladic and Karadzic in their crosshairs on several occasions but did not fire because there was never an official green light...
Meanwhile, U.S. and French experts devised a plan to support local moderates and destabilize Karadzic politically. Holbrooke wanted to isolate Karadzic by jamming all his electronic communications. "But the CIA fought the idea tooth and nail and told me it was technically impossible," fumes Holbrooke. "And that's bull!" A former senior CIA official confirms that such a plan was discussed...