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...Verdict LIBYA A criminal court sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV. Rejecting the charges, Bulgaria, the E.U. and the U.S. led the international condemnation of the sentence. The defense argued that poor hygiene in a hospital in the northeastern port city of Benghazi had caused the spread of the virus. The verdict in the five-year-long case comes at a sensitive time for Libya, which has been seeking to rehabilitate itself internationally. The medics have the right to appeal...
...judgments requires context. First, the context of the war on terrorism, which means examining the entire post--Sept. 11 ledger. That includes more than just the past two weeks of bloodletting in Iraq. It includes overthrowing the Taliban, liberating Afghanistan, scattering and decimating alQaeda, deposing Saddam Hussein, disarming Libya and turning Pakistan from supporter of the Taliban (and by extension alQaeda) into perhaps our most significant ally in the war on terror. And though no one dares say this, it includes 2 1/2 years without a terrorist attack on American soil, something that in the days and weeks after Sept...
...troops will now stay on the island indefinitely and called for international recognition for Turkish Cyprus as a separate state. Some Greek Cypriots voted against the plan because they feared investment in the less developed north would lure tourists away from their side of the island. The Big Thaw LIBYA The U.S. eased economic sanctions against Muammar Gaddafi's regime, allowing a resumption of oil imports to the U.S. and most commercial activities. Gaddafi has pledged to end his WMD program. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN ... No, Dahling The English National Opera has banned its employees from using the traditional showbiz greeting...
...waiting to be found. As he said in the press conference, “See, I happen to believe that we’ll find out the truth on the weapons…They could be hidden like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm [in Libya].” Of course, as a sheepish White House spokesperson Scott McClellan revealed later, there were actually 23.6 tons of mustard gas, and they were not buried in a turkey farm. Former top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay, once a vehement believer that Iraq had WMDs, has admitted that...
...waiting to be found. As he said in the press conference, “See, I happen to believe that we’ll find out the truth on the weapons…They could be hidden like the 50 tons of mustard gas in a turkey farm [in Libya].” Of course, as a sheepish White House Spokesman Scott McClellan revealed later, there were actually 23.6 tons of mustard gas, and they were not buried in a turkey farm. Former top U.S. weapons inspector David Kay, once a vehement believer that Iraq had WMDs, has admitted that...