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...that the war on terrorism precludes action against Saddam Hussein’s evil regime is misguided. The Staff needs to realize that the war cannot fully succeed if a terror-sponsoring, genocidal dictator like Saddam Hussein is allowed to stay in power and continue developing weapons of mass murder. As Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan pointed out last January in the Weekly Standard magazine: “[T]he effort to remove Saddam from power would be no more a ‘diversion’ from the war on al Qaeda than the fight against Hitler...
...Tensions over water have even led to murder. Last month, in a village called Shakhshirale close to the Turkmenian border, hash farmers shot dead a man who walked all day to demand two buckets of water. And in Saifudden's village of Dalicharbolak, the men there admit that after 12 people died of malnutrition over the summer, some among them gunned down two cannabis growers who were hoarding water upstream. An hour's drive to the east of Dalicharbolak, a village headman says his is the only settlement out of 38 nearby that has potable water?in effect, a single...
...heard about Shopper's Food Warehouse immediately because we had a victim. There was a brief conversation about something at Michael's [Arts & Crafts], but no one had been injured. We really weren't focused on the relationship. We were focused on the murder...
...often that a prisoner is hap-py to be denied parole. But Aïssa Mesbah may have felt that way last week when he learned that his early release from Muret Prison in Toulouse, where he's seven years into a 12-year sentence for attempted murder, had been denied. A judge had ruled that Mesbah's exemplary conduct in jail warranted his parole. But last week that same judge reversed himself, arguing that Mesbah, 28, was better off behind bars. Early release, the magistrate reasoned, would make Mesbah a victim of France's double peine - a "double jeopardy...
...explosion of Pentecostalism has also had varied social and political repercussions. Recently, around 1,000 members of an independent church in Uganda died in an apparent mass suicide. A group called the Lord’s Resistance Army faces allegations of mass murder, rape and cannibalism. Moreover, Jenkins reports, countries with growing population also have growing tensions between Christians and Muslims. Regions in Nigeria, Sudan and the Philippines are brimming with conflict. In 1991, Zambia officially became a Christian nation. Liberia, Kenya and Zimbabwe have mentioned similar plans...