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...Omar, and his close comrade Osama bin Laden, and to join a broadly-based government. Pakistani officials reportedly held meetings in Islamabad with Taliban foreign minister Mullah Mutawakil even as Secretary of State Colin Powell was visiting the city on Tuesday, and its efforts to salvage an "acceptable" Taliban minus the Al Qaeda connection are likely to intensify. Powell and Musharraf on Tuesday both emphasized a role for moderate Taliban elements in a future government, although the Northern Alliance immediately rejected any Taliban presence in a future political arrangement...
...Rumsfeld said Thursday, the fight against terror "undoubtedly will prove to be a lot more like a cold war than a hot war. If you think about it, in the cold war it took 50 years, plus or minus. It did not involve major battles. It involved continuous pressure. It involved cooperation by a host of nations. It involved the willingness of populations in many countries to invest in it and to sustain it. It took leadership at the top from a number of countries that were willing to be principled and to be courageous and to put things...
...Middle East, then we need to capture more supply from the OPEC and non-OPEC nations currently supplying us to replace the 2.5 million BPD we get from the Persian Gulf. According to the Energy Information Administration of the DOE, such alternatives are available. Russia exports a net (production minus internal consumption) 4.3 million BPD alone, of which we capture virtually nothing. Norway exports 3.1 million BPD, of which we get only 10 percent. Venezuela, an exporter of 2.7 million BPD, sends only 55 percent, or 1.5 million BPD to the U.S. Nigeria exports 1.9 million BPD, of which only...
Factoring in sacks and tackles for losses, Cornell ended the day with minus-three rushing yards...
...Members of the House and Senate leadership have cars, drivers and safe houses to go to (albeit minus spouses) in emergencies. But everyone else is on their own, which is why the rank and file suffer from White House envy. Every time one congressman hears that Vice President Dick Cheney is off in a secure location, he fumes, "What are we, chopped liver...