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...lack of enthusiasm for the change—evinced by a letter of protest from 11 Bureau counselors released last March—lends Ducey’s exit an air of mystery, although colleagues and administrators say he left amicably and of his own will...
...tension between Zarqawi and nationalist insurgents was made evident some months ago in the letter intercepted ostensibly from the Jordanian to Osama bin Laden, in which he complained that the Iraqis were averse to suicide attacks and that they wanted to go home to their wives after a day's fighting. In other words, Zarqawi complained that the Iraqi insurgents actually imagined a future for themselves. And that being the case, they'd be averse both to suicide attacks and also to tactics such as the indiscriminate killing of Shiites (as advocated by Zarqawi) that would imperil prospects for holding...
...Jiang has been under constant military surveillance since the publication of his SARS revelations, but his Tiananmen letter, leaked to Chinese and international media in March, appears to be the more immediate cause for his detention. In it, he not only described his memories of the gruesome scene at his hospital on the night the P.L.A. opened fire on peaceful crowds of pro-democracy demonstrators, but he also revealed that China's late President Yang Shangkun and Party elder Chen Yun privately expressed regret over the carnage. For the past 15 years, Beijing has insisted the demonstration was a "counterrevolutionary...
...Mainland media did not report Jiang's letter, but in a country that doesn't allow public debate, a single dissenting voice can be enormously threatening. In their efforts to silence him, Jiang's captors have not mistreated him physically, but it has been a harrowing experience psychologically. Initially, Jiang and his wife were taken to an unknown location in an armored truck and made to walk through what one source describes as "a human corridor" of a hundred guards before being confined to separate rooms. Hua was given copies of China's constitution and the regulations of the P.L.A...
...crossed Jiang Zemin, China's former President and current Chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission. The doctor's SARS disclosures prompted the ouster of two of Jiang Zemin's protégés-former Health Minister Zhang Wenkang and ex-Beijing Mayor Meng Xuenong. The Tiananmen letter might also be perceived as a personal affront, given that Jiang Zemin came to power in 1989 in part because of his support for the crackdown. A government admission of wrongdoing, as the doctor urges, would be a blow to the ex-President's campaign to secure his legacy...