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...Lanka's Good Guys The moment by Romesh Ratnesar says that in Sri Lanka "there are no good guys" [May 25]. This is rubbish because 99.9% of Sri Lankans are good, peace-loving people. The U.S. is guilty of killing scores from collateral damage, be it in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan or other theaters of the war on terror. So why single out Sri Lanka for criticism? The Sri Lankan government ought to be congratulated for saving the Tamils in the North and East from the devilish clutches of the Tigers and restoring their liberty. W.Y. Rambukwelle, Invercargill, New Zealand...
...evidence. Rustempasic says the weaponry was wartime trash from the 1990s, and claims he is being hounded for his Salafi beliefs. Still, his talk is disquieting. "There is a religious thought that Muslims are one body," he says. "As far as I know no Bosnian has been captured in Iraq or Afghanistan, but it is always within the domain of possibilities...
...that independence is key. What few people understand is that a CIA station chief in every country in the world has the authority to send back to Washington and disseminate around the government what is essentially finished analysis. This happened in Iraq in mid-2003, when the CIA station in Baghdad sounded the alarm that the invasion was about to go very badly. When the White House and the Pentagon's civilian management read the Baghdad chief's conclusions, they raged, dismissing the analysis as "defeatist," even going so far as to accuse the chief of being a closet Democrat...
...savior." -Gholamreza Ghanbari, a veteran of the Iran-Iraq war, on Mousavi. (Christian Science Monitor, June...
...Served as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1988, guiding the country through its war with Iraq and earning plaudits for his stewardship of the economy...