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...claims of divine apparitions and stories of supernatural powers--not needing food, for example, because heaven sustains him. But his R.U.F. feeds on earthly stuff: the illegal sale of diamonds smuggled out through neighboring Liberia. Sankoh has ties to that country's President, Charles Taylor, whom he met in Libya during military training in the '80s and who also blasted his way to power. Sankoh may be moving his base to Liberia...
...captured the rationale succinctly: "'The Lord's our shepherd,' says the psalm, but just in case, we better get a bomb." Israel was following the U.S., Britain, the Soviet Union, France and China. India joined the club too, followed eventually by Pakistan. And today North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Libya are knocking at the door...
Rogues such as Iraq, North Korea and Libya are much more dangerous because they might be reckless or desperate enough to threaten or use their capabilities for offensive and not merely defensive purposes. Keeping weapons of mass destruction out of their hands is a critical challenge, which will have to be met by constant bullying--and occasional bribing, along with better control over the materials and expertise from the former Soviet nuclear program. Just as critical will be maintaining a strong and credible nuclear and conventional deterrent so that even if rogues should manage to get terrible weapons, they will...
...capital will be exempt, from the world's oldest in Damascus to its newest in Palestine, from dusty Riyadh to scenic Rabat, from war-weary Beirut and Baghdad to sleepy Muscat and Manama, from landlocked Amman to seafront Algiers. Oh, and Jerusalem too. Syria, Libya and Iraq will witness the deepest transformations for the simple reason that their eccentric ideologies are the most bankrupt--and the most out of synch with their people. Their institutions are corrupt. And their economies are moribund...
...toward the capital is not a product of some collective psychosis of the Sierra Leoneans. It is, instead, a sordid tale of ruthless pursuit of a buried treasure - diamonds - in the world's poorest country, and of political calculations, miscalculations and plain wishful thinking among powers as diverse as Libya...