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...Baraka, the tastes come fast and furious, replete with the inventive spicing that results from the position of Northern Africa at the crossroads of the ancient caravan route from the East. Close to Sicily, Italy and Spain, the land has been filled by successive waves of immigrants over thousands of years: Berbers, Romans, Arabs, Turks, Spaniards and the French who colonized the region. Its fertile land has adapted to this influx, offering both ancient grains and New World vegetables...
...Blix wanted to do the Iraqi government the courtesy of explaining what arrangements he was making to resume the inspections. He told the Iraqis that UNMOVIC will need to expand its base in Baghdad and open a field office in the northern city of Mosul. The Iraqis in turn gave the inspectors a list of approved hotels where the inspectors could stay...
...Bush Administration insists its policy is zero tolerance of Iraqi violations of the latest UN Security Council resolution. Administration officials announced Monday that Iraq had violated that resolution by firing on coalition planes patrolling the "no-fly" zone over northern Iraq. But, in the same breath, they said the U.S. would not take the matter up at the UN Security Council, where any move to punish Iraqi violations would have to begin. What's going...
...uphold any Council resolution." The problem is, the flyers aren't enforcing a Council resolution. The U.S., Britain and France began in 1991 denying Iraq the right to fly in parts of its own airspace as a way of implementing UN resolutions urging protection for the Kurds in northern Iraq and the Shiites in the south from the wrath of Saddam. But the "no-fly" zone was never specifically mandated by the UN Security Council, and was rejected from the outset by Iraq as a violation of its sovereignty. Iraq's objections were backed by Russia and China...
...message problem is endemic to Democrats. The party boasts a big tent, but that tent doubles as a big boxing ring, and in the weeks before the election every genus of Democrat--from the Southern pro-gun, antiabortion members of Congress to the Northern pro-choice, gun-control liberals in the Senate--duked it out over how to counter the President's agenda. Liberals argued it was time to get tougher with Bush on Iraq and the economy; moderates, many of whom backed Bush's war resolution and tax-cut proposal, argued it was time to get tougher on liberals...