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...attacks on Arafat will come from the PFLP organization in Damascus rather than in the West Bank or Gaza. Arafat decided to arrest at least eight of them. The Popular Front, for him, is a lightweight boxer that he can easily knock down. But he would suffer from the campaign they would launch against him from Damascus, which started yesterday with accusations that the arrests are aimed to serve only the interests of the Americans and Israelis...
...pleasantly surprised to reach for the iron cast toilet paper holder, aside which sits a feature we all have dreamed of: “the buzzer”. This doorbell-like utility used to summon thy man servant eliminates the fear that at some point we may need to knock on the stall next to us and utter those prolific words, “Do you have a square to spare?” And yet, the toilet is just one of the many jewels in this lavatorial crown...
...depends on the goal. If it's to knock down the Taliban and get a post-Taliban government installed, then that can't be achieved very quickly. Especially if elements of the Taliban continue to fight on after they've lost power. So we're simply going to have to hold Pakistan's hand on this...
...Well, that may have been true from the very beginning, to the extent that the question is how the mission is defined. That may be why the military is saying it can knock down the Taliban but not necessarily deliver Osama bin Laden. The first is a relatively easy task for the U.S. military; the second is nearly impossible. The President speaks of delivering bin Laden dead or alive, but he and his advisers know that's a desire rather than a pledge on which they can deliver...
...named Richard Clarke, a National Security Council aide, as his counterterrorism czar to supervise the battle both at home and abroad. Clarke was hamstrung because he had no control over other agencies' budgets. But he made a strong case for having one person oversee the attack on terrorism and knock heads in the bureaucracy...