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...idea of expanding the Army generally, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is opposed. "The Joint Chiefs do tabletop exercises--they have done two or three recently," Rumsfeld said in an interview with TIME last week. "The analysis thus far says that we have sufficient forces to do the assigned missions." At the same time, Rumsfeld is considering a series of reforms that would effectively enlarge the fighting forces. One key change would turn many soldiers who are doing administrative and technical jobs in the Army into real fighters and replace them with civilians. That would keep the Army's head...
...Salaam palace in the Red Sea port of Jidda just as the afternoon call to prayer sounded. The U.S. group, led by the National Security Council counterterrorism chief, Frances Townsend, soon launched into a parley on the touchy topic. Townsend wanted more cooperation; Abdullah suggested a joint task force. The envoys seized the unexpected offer...
Sources tell TIME that a group of FBI and IRS agents are scheduled to fly to Riyadh this week to start work at a joint center that could one day house two dozen financial experts. "It's difficult to overestimate the potential value of this joint effort," says Treasury general counsel David Aufhauser, the top U.S. official dealing with terrorist finances. The Saudis seem to have plenty to offer. They have arrested or killed some 200 al-Qaeda suspects since the May 12 Riyadh bombing that took 35 lives and have found documents, including financial records, that could provide useful...
...latter-day Bonnie and Clyde are not the only fugitives to have turned up in Africa's fun city. In 1999 Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, an al-Qaeda agent wanted for the bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tanzania, was found there flipping burgers at a fast-food joint. Former Symbionese Liberation Army member James Kilgore, sought for his role in the 1975 murder of church worker Myrna Opsahl during a bank robbery in Carmichael, Calif., was found last year teaching economics at the University of Cape Town. And German con man Jurgen Harksen, who had lived in the city since...
...North Korea, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan left the six-sided bargaining table?custom built for the talks?offering few signs of progress. There were no concessions from the principal antagonists, the U.S. and North Korea. The parties couldn't muster enough consensus to release a joint declaration of common goals. And then, on Saturday, the North declared itself uninterested in future meetings. "The talks have made us believe that we have no other choice but to strengthen our nuclear deterrent force," a foreign ministry spokesman railed to North Korea's official news agency. "How can the DPRK [Democratic...