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...whole was ill equipped to deal with the terrorist threat. It had neither the language skills nor the analytical savvy to understand al-Qaeda. The bureau's information-technology capability dated to pre-Internet days. Chambliss says the counterterrorism investigations were decentralized at the bureau's 56 field offices, which were actually discouraged from sharing information with one another or with headquarters...
...Peter G. Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) and Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) want Rubin, now a director of Enron underwriter Citigroup, to testify about his role in the controversy. Others have questioned a rise in the statutory debt limit that Rubin pushed through Congress...
...problem runs deeper than a few ill-chosen comments. Some of the most gung-ho hawks in Washington have made the argument that toppling Saddam would facilitate an entire remaking of the Middle Eastern political equation on terms more favorable to the U.S. and Israel. And that's precisely the fear on the streets and in the corridors of power of the Arab capitals. Not that Rumsfeld is particularly concerned. On Tuesday, he went on the record disputing the characterization of the West Bank and Gaza as "occupied" by Israel, declining to criticize Israeli settlement activity there and trashing...
...Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is in peace negotiations with the group.) From the beginning, the second front in Mindanao boiled down U.S.-Philippine relations to a single issue: the war on terror. Bush wanted to reward Arroyo for pledging her support after Sept. 11, and Arroyo's military was plainly ill-equipped to track down Abu Sayyaf, which had snatched more than 100 hostages in recent years and still held three captive, including American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham. Instead of giving U.S. troops carte blanche, Arroyo welcomed their offer of training and military aid. On June 7, a Philippine patrol...
...deaths?as well as more than 600 illnesses linked in Japan to Chinese diet pills?have alerted health authorities to a hazard they have been almost powerless to stop. Similar drugs were implicated in deaths in China last year, with scores more falling ill in Korea and Hong Kong. Japan last month banned 24 types of Chinese diet drugs?many containing N-nitroso fenfluramine?and rushed through new laws placing the burden on importers to prove product safety or face a fine of up to $26,000. Just last week, health officials in China published a ban on 13 diet...