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...also accuses the BNP of altering the voter roll before leaving office, removing the names of its supporters while entering the names of BNP voters multiple times. The BNP concedes there are problems with the roll but denies manipulating it. "They cannot really establish it, number one," says BNP joint secretary general Nazrul Islam Khan of the Awami League's allegations. "Number...
...While there has been scant public evidence of what might be causing the rift, sources close to the Langkawi negotiations say that the new Thai leadership is balking over elements of a secret peace plan drafted by the negotiators in Langkawi. Titled "A Joint Peace and Development Programme for Southern Thailand" and shown to TIME by an insurgent leader who represented his group at the talks and requested that his name not be published, the 16-page document outlines seven points of agreement reached by Thai officials and rebels during the Langkawi meeting. They include the reestablishment of the Southern...
...officers like CENTCOM Commander Gen. John Abziaid mostly stood by mutely while Bush and now-departed Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly said the commanders in Iraq were orchestrating the military strategy on the ground. (The message: if the war isn't going well, ask the generals why.) The Joint Chiefs of Staff - the top officers of all four services and the Chairman and Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - never aggressively challenged Rumsfeld's micromanaging. Nor did they object when Rumsfeld broke with tradition and refused to meet with them as a body - instead, including senior civilians...
...Which brings us to yesterday's comments by Powell, who in a previous life was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell told CBS News' Face the Nationthat he was "not persuaded that another surge of troops into Baghdad for the purposes of suppressing this communitarian violence, this civil war, will work." Powell said he had not yet heard anything like a clear mission for a surged U.S. force. Plus, he added, "I'm not sure any of the commanders have said that yet." Powell was reminding listeners that George W. Bush has always said that he would...
Today, the Presnyakov brothers' Yekaterinburg theater no longer exists, and their hometown doesn't seem to be aware of their world fame. The brothers shrug it off. They launched their theater, they say, when many people were traumatized by misguided reforms that suddenly wrenched their lives out of joint. The theater tried to help people cope with an uncertain future. These days, however, they see different problems on the rise. "This country is getting rigidly controlled again," Oleg says. "Once the brief spell of freedom shrinks, the state accepts only its controlled appointees, rather than those who spring up spontaneously...