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...missiles in the palm groves are but one example. Although Powell claims those mobile labs found in northern Iraq vindicate his claims, British intelligence disputes the claim and even the State Department's own intelligence wing says the evidence is not definitive. Those aluminum tubes supposedly showing a uranium-enrichment centrifuge program? The International Atomic Energy Agency investigated and pooh-poohed the claim - the centrifuge parts revealed as having been buried under the rosebush of a Baghdad scientist since 1991 certainly show that Saddam had a decade earlier squirreled away components to allow him to restart a program at some...
...Garner's 200-member Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq found itself unable to exert authority over the activities of the 146,000 soldiers in Iraq, let alone Iraqi civilians. And part of the problem was Garner himself, who had earned plaudits for overseeing humanitarian efforts in northern Iraq after the first Gulf War but who, according to some Administration officials, lacked the executive savvy needed for the task of restoring order and stitching Iraq back together. Though a favorite of Rumsfeld's, Garner had few other patrons at the White House. By early May, Administration officials...
...year ago, notes Masood Khalili, once a leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance and now Afghanistan's ambassador to India, "the Taliban were scared, broken and disconcerted. Now they are forming again, slowly, gradually, like a photograph developing." The big picture, according to Kandahar's police chief Brigadier General Mohammed Akram, is that "the Taliban are stronger now than at any time since the fall of their government." These neo-Taliban number in the "thousands," according to an Afghan security official in Kabul. They operate primarily out of Pakistan, guided by many of the same men?including supreme leader...
...Karzai favors reintegrating low-level Taliban into Afghan society. But Mullah Khaksar, an ex-Taliban minister who later allied himself with the Northern Alliance, says Talibs are warned by their peers that "they'll be sent to Guant?namo" if they return. Or, he adds, "[the Taliban] pay people to join their jihad." Mullah Nik Mohammed, a Taliban commander captured in Spin Boldak, told his interrogators that he would have received $850 for detonating a bomb, double that if it killed a civilian, and $2,600 for taking a soldier's life...
...with his wife and decided to take it out on a whole populace." At the October Fest bar on the Rimini coast, owner Roberto Drudi insists "we have no problem with Germans." He hopes the spat will soon fade, but others fear it won't. "Stefani paraded out the Northern League's old boorish way of talking," says Camillo Brezzi, professor of contemporary history at Siena University. "But it derives from a basic anti-European attitude of this government. They do not see real possibilities for collaborating with their most important partners." French President Jacques Chirac got whomped in February...