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...elder Aidid's faction that killed 18 U.S. troops in a bloody Mogadishu street battle made famous by the book and movie Black Hawk Down. Today, by virtue of the clan power structures that carve up this East African nation, the 44-year old finds himself Deputy Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Acting Minister for Reconciliation...
...capital in 1993, killing 18, in a bloody street battle made famous by the movie Black Hawk Down. (Mohammed Farah Aidid was killed in 1996.) Today, by virtue of the Byzantine clan structure and shifting power deals that carve up this East African nation, Aidid finds himself Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and Acting Minister for Reconciliation...
...move that is delighting environmentalists, the Department of Interior is announcing a new proposal to designate the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The move settles a lawsuit brought by three environmental groups - the Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace and the Center for Biological Diversity - and while the resolution itself was not a stunner, the implications of it are: The government must effectively own up to global warming as the likely cause of the problem. For a White House that has long questioned whether human-influenced climate change exists at all, this is a shift not just...
...possibility that worries skeptics is that the Interior move may turn out to be much less than it seems. A proposed listing is only the first step in protecting a species. The government then has a year to study the question and could ultimately determine that protection is not warranted. This would no doubt lead to more court battles that could indeed run past the expiration date of the Administration itself. What's more, even if the bear is listed, the government is required only to refrain from taking actions that harm the species further. It is not required...
...January, at TIME's heavily fortified Baghdad bureau, I was shown a video by Iraqi human rights workers. In the first segment of the video, grieving Iraqi families were collecting bodies at a morgue. The second part showed the interior of two houses whose walls were spattered with blood and pitted with bullet holes. I asked who had carried out this savagery. I assumed it was part of the daily butchery that Sunni and Shiite extremists inflict on innocent Iraqis. The activist from the Hammurabi Human Rights groups replied: "It was done by you Americans. Marines...