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...renegotiations looked likely to rectify that. The other two were about structure - Dynegy wanted to take over as the energy-trading honcho by folding its own trading operation into Enron's powerhouse, and it wanted to beef up its real energy-production assets by acquiring Enron subsidiary Northern Natural Gas, a pipeline network that runs from the upper Midwest down to Texas...
...having been steadily deserted by leery clients as each day brought further doubt how long Enron itself was going to be a viable company. And the pipeline? As part of the original merger deal, Dynegy handed Enron $1.5 billion in badly needed capital - in exchange for preferred stock in Northern Natural Gas. And now that the merger is terminated, guess what? Dynegy has the right to buy the rest of the pipeline?s stock...
...Afghanistan is just the beginning of the war against terror,” declared a resolute George W. Bush on Nov. 21. Now that the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance has all but defeated the Taliban, all eyes are fixed firmly on Washington, waiting to find out where Phase Two of the war on terror will take...
...even half the battle. Even if the Bush administration were magically able to promote justice for the Palestinians while not upsetting the pro-Israeli lobby, taking the war to Iraq poses another set of problems. Suppose our forces topple Saddam Hussein? Then what? Observers have duly noted that the Northern Alliance might not be much better than the Taliban. But at least there was an opposition in Afghanistan. In Iraq, the only people with any political clout are Saddam’s allies and his cronies. Taking the war to Iraq will require intensive diplomatic acrobatics, a lot of luck...
...approximately 800 foreign Taliban volunteers taken to the Kala-i-Jangi fortress were eventually killed in three days of air strikes and ground attacks by U.S. and British special forces and Northern Alliance troops. But in the close-quarters battle, one air strike on Monday turned into a friendly-fire incident, and eyewitnesses told Perry that two American soldiers died in the explosion. U.S. officials assert, however, that no U.S. troops were killed by that misguided bomb; Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said in Washington Monday that five soldiers had been wounded but that none of their injuries was life-threatening...