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Still, Okhotin said it was not a simple question of prosecute or release, guilty or innocent. He and others speculated before the trial that the prosecutors and judge might insist on going through with the full courtroom process even if they did not intend to follow through on the smuggling charges against Okhotin, as a way of exposing the corruption many say is rampant in the Russian customs system...
...investigation says followup interrogation of four JI suspects arrested in the Semarang raid yielded specific information that the Grand Hyatt, Mulia and the Marriott were possible hotel targets. Also mentioned were the Citraland and Kelapa Gading malls in Jakarta, along with various sites used by Christian congregations. Although police insist that they were increasing security in these areas, in the case of the Marriott, the hotel's management says no warning was ever delivered. Such an omission is particularly alarming when Jakarta security officials themselves knew that JI had at least one cache of explosives in the city...
...both hawks and doves believed that Saddam possessed or was developing weapons of mass destruction, what should the U.S. have done? Some honest critics of invasion, as abundant in Britain as they are scarce in the U.S., have argued for more patient inspections and international pressure. Others, bolder still, insist that containment was as possible with Iraq as it was with nuclear-armed India and Pakistan—and even, according to Bush’s double standard, as it is with North Korea...
...because his public relations machine is dumbstruck for the first time. Bush wagered the White House on finding a deadly desert stockpile and is now trying to redefine deadly. Meanwhile, democrats have left themselves vulnerable because, rather than facing off with Bush on the merits of invasion, they insist on holding him to that bet—fine as long as nothing turns...
...army, which feared some of its officers might be named as scapegoats, strongly opposed the creation of the committee. But Knesset officials insist that it is vital to examine Israel's intelligence methods in the event other countries in the Middle East, such as Iran, threaten Israel with these kinds of lethal weapons. The committee expects to produce a summary of its findings in six months, though the full report will be classified. --By Matt Rees