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Also, the Saudis have offered only "selective cooperation" on the financial front, according to a senior U.S. official. A former Bush Administration official says the Saudis generally insist on knowing everything the Americans know before moving against a suspect. U.S. investigators, he says, sometimes suspect that the Saudis are fishing, trying to ferret out details of U.S. intelligence, or stalling, to protect Saudi individuals from embarrassment. One of the Administration's top counterterrorism officials says the Saudis still appear to be protecting charities associated with the royal family and its friends. He says the bank records of a charity suspected...
...Klein masterfully laid out the explanation of why the worthwhile Teach for America organization was defunded by the Federal Government's AmeriCorps program [IN THE ARENA, Aug. 25]. Limited resources plague even the richest nation in the world. When we insist on funding items like the F-22 Raptor fighter jet and a missile-defense shield with billions upon billions of dollars, we crowd out money for valuable things like education and social programs. President Eisenhower, a five-star general, warned us to increase our scrutiny of defense spending. Nonetheless, we find ourselves with a $400 billion defense budget. Neither...
...Still, Israel insist it will not work with a PA government answerable to Arafat, and if violence escalates it may try to expel him. If the PA collapsed as a result, Israel would then have to resume the occupier's responsibilities in the Palestinian cities of the West Bank and Gaza. And whereas it has sent its troops on raids in many of those cities in the course of the current intifada, it has studiously avoided long-term deployments or resuming responsibility for civil administration. Even hawkish Israelis who have no intention of surrendering the hundreds of settlements Israel...
...been using the cease-fire to rest and rearm. According to a senior military official, Hamas has spent the past six weeks planning attacks, stockpiling explosives and improving the range of its rockets. Despite the battering they have given the Palestinian security infrastructure over the past year, Israeli officials insist Dahlan has enough strength to squelch those preparations. "The question," says the intelligence officer, "is if he also has the motivation...
With the exception of Britain, the U.S. has the only military that can actually fight and win wars. Sweden, Canada, Nigeria are good at peacekeeping. Sending American troops ashore in West Africa, even in small numbers, is not a very efficient division of labor. But if the world insists that we stretch ourselves beyond prudent limits and be the international benefactor everywhere, we should insist that the world help relieve our burdens elsewhere, most notably in Iraq...