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...with 9/11, but the court was unable to hear testimony from Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged key al-Qaeda operative in U.S. custody. The U.S. government turned down the prosecution's requests to allow Binalshibh to testify, or even provide transcripts of his questioning. "The interests of the state to maintain secrecy cannot result in a disadvantage for the defendant," said Judge Klaus Tolksdorf. Last month, another judge acquitted Abdelghani Mzoudi, another Moroccan and friend of the Hamburg hijackers, of the same...
...Frusciante does. Shot through with synths and full of the rich, sweet harmonies that distinguished By The Way from its predecessors, Shadows almost sounds like a pop album on songs like “Omission.” Frusciante is careful to maintain his outsider/auteur credentials with three eerie, spine-tingling synth tracks, but the rest of the album is given over to meatier stuff. The opening track, “Carvel,” is a miniature masterwork, emerging from a sheen of synths to grab you by the ear with a hook that keeps metamorphosing into something...
...think that with every technology comes responsibility, and so there may be other ways—more efficacious ways to advance technology but maintain responsibility,” said Anthony E. Oro, a stem cell researcher and assistant professor of dermatology at Stanford School of Medicine...
...designed to provoke a civil war before the Coalition restores sovereignty to an Iraqi authority on July 1. The good news, though, may be that mass killings of innocent civilians, such as the latest twin bombings directed at Shiite worshippers in Kerbala and Baghdad, may actually help the Coalition maintain the hard-won but inherently fragile consensus among Iraqis over their immediate future...
...population, the Shiites see a democratic election as the best means to prevail in the future power arrangement. For the same reason, the Kurds, in particular, were hoping to have their autonomy codified before a new elected Iraqi leadership takes power in Baghdad. They had hoped to not only maintain their current functional autonomy in the territory carved out by the Coalition's Northern No-Fly Zone after the Gulf War, but also to extend it into the key oil-producing areas around Kirkuk and Mosul. In the end, all they got was a reaffirmation of the current arrangement, deferring...