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...backpedal on some of those claims, Friday, conceding that it was based simply on the intensity of the resistance they're encountering on their sweep through a tribal area in the hunt for al-Qaeda fugitives. Still, the head of France's military announced on Monday that Osama bin Laden had more than once in recent weeks narrowly escaped from French troops fighting in a new U.S.-led offensive aimed at snaring the al-Qaeda leader. The U.S. military unit that captured Saddam Hussein has been moved to the Afghan-Pakistan border, and U.S. officials have expressed confidence they...
...Bush's credibility problems convinced me that Americans don't trust their President anymore. They desperately want a leader who can protect them. I don't know what will happen between now and the November election, but so long as al-Qaeda isn't destroyed and Osama bin Laden isn't dead, the U.S. and the international community won't feel safe. If bin Laden is captured or killed and al-Qaeda and its adherents are vanquished, the earth will be much safer for all of us. If Bush can accomplish those things, Americans may forgive...
...support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Spain might have been targeted anyway, because of its effective police and intelligence campaign that has netted a number of al-Qaeda operatives - or even simply because Andalusia before 1492 was the European foothold of the old Islamic caliphate that bin Laden dreams of reviving. But in the minds of many a Spanish voter, last week's attacks were al-Qaeda making good on bin Laden's vow, last October, to punish those nations that had supported Bush and Blair in Iraq...
...lives in South Africa, but remains terrified that her former captors will somehow find her. Debbie is far from alone in her suffering. In interviews conducted for the BBC's Panorama TV program in the slums of Johannesburg, dozens of youths - some traumatized like Debbie, many others now laden with guilt - described similar experiences in government-run camps around Zimbabwe in which youths are, the witnesses say, trained to maim, torture and kill. Youths who have fled the camps say they are used to train Mugabe's feared youth militia - known as the Green Bombers after the uniforms some wear...
...refrigerator? . . . . I’m not even mad! That’s amazing!”). In the fall, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve should be a romp, and I’ll probably check out Martin Scorsese’s star-laden Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator, Oliver Stone’s Alexander, and Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm...