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...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel a "cruel and repressive racist regime." His outburst confirmed fears of the U.S. and other nations, which boycotted the event on the assumption that it would be used to castigate Israel. As some attendees stormed out in protest, activists in rainbow wigs pelted the Iranian leader with red clown noses...
...WORLD LEADER SHOWED...
...dying breath, I'd like to be at his bedside and say, "Did you do it?"' SAM DONALDSON, longtime ABC News correspondent, on wanting to ask Fidel Castro whether the former Cuban leader had a role in assassinating John F. Kennedy...
...relied on to produce more than false confessions--because people will say anything to make the pain stop. This is the history that Bush officials chose to ignore. I asked a former CIA officer privy to the decision-making that led to the waterboarding of al-Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah whether he thought the abusive tactics worked. His answer: to a degree. From the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, Mohammed and other al-Qaeda prisoners, the CIA learned a lot more than it knew before about the group's communications, its use of safe houses and codes, and the outlines...
...Furthermore, Obama should take the radical but logical step of lifting the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba. The harsh economic sanctions are a historical relic from past efforts to dislodge Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whom several presidential administrations—beginning in the 1960s—have tried unsuccessfully to shake from power. The sanctions may have actually had the opposite of their intended effect politically, allowing Castro to blame the U.S. for Cuba’s sluggish economic development. As disagreeable as Castro’s actions toward America may have been, an embargo rooted in personal enmity against...