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...proliferation by pledging not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states. Now the Pentagon was saying the U.S. may encounter circumstances in which nuclear weapons would used against not only traditional nuclear powers such as China and Russia, but also against Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria and Libya...
...countries outlined in the report—Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya, China and Russia—pose a clear danger to the security of the United States and its allies. All either have weapons of mass destruction, or have tried to develop them. Even more telling, several of these countries—most notably Iraq and Syria—have shown the willingness to slaughter their own people. And though Russia’s relationship with the U.S. has improved immeasurably since the Cold War, it would be irresponsible of the military not to have a nuclear contingency...
...Cecilia Delgado, Angel Moya Acosta, Nestor Rodríguez Lobaina, Rene Montes de Oca, Dr. Oscar Biscet, Jose Orlando Gonzalez Bridon. They are victims of a regime that in 2001 was rated by Freedom House as one of the most repressive in the world —worse than Libya and Syria, worse even than China. They have been arrested for “disrespect,” for “dangerousness,” for “conduct that is in manifest contradiction with the norms of socialist morality.” And none of them will...
...LIBYA No Medical Plot A bizarre case against seven foreign medical workers took another twist when a Libyan judge found no evidence to support the charges against them - after three years in jail. The People's Court in Tripoli charged a Palestinian doctor and six Bulgarian medical workers last July with a plot to undermine state security by infecting children with the aids virus. Their lawyers argued that poor hospital hygiene caused the infections. The case has been referred to an ordinary criminal court...
This is not a political book, but Jamal can't resist describing a conference in Libya ostensibly to rally Arab nations to the Palestinian cause. It degenerated into a fierce debate about whether macaroni was the invention of the Italians, Libya's former colonial rulers, or was brought to Italy from China by Arabs. Writes Jamal: "Like many such conferences in Arab countries that are in principle to save Palestine, the only thing that was saved, finally, was the macaroni...