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...arrested on July 23, faces 32 criminal charges, including four counts of violating the Federal Espionage Act. The military says al-Halabi, 24, tried to funnel classified information on Guantanamo prisoners to a Syrian government agent. Al-Halabi says he is innocent, and Syria's Information Minister calls the notion that al-Halabi or anyone else was spying for Syria at Guantanamo "baseless and illogical...
Even if the Iraqis did destroy most of their illegal weaponry in 1991, that does not mean they didn't build up new stores. The notion that the bioweapons program wound down in the 1990s is flatly rejected by Richard Spertzel, who led the U.N. hunt for biological weapons inside Iraq from 1994 to 1998. "We were developing pretty good evidence of a continuing program in '97 and '98," he says. Some U.N. inspectors, disagree, saying they believe that there was no further production after 1991. Spertzel says an Iraqi scientist phoned him just this past April and told...
...idea has been gaining steam among his fellow Democrats in the Senate and may be introduced in the House by Congressman Tom Lantos of California. It probably won't pass, since Republicans control both houses, but Biden had found his way to the heart of the 2004 campaign: the notion that Bush's tax breaks for the wealthy could be put to better...
...said that foster care in China is parallel to the American notion of adoption in that it means finding a permanent home for the child...
...going, 'Yeah but, wait, wait, comics aren't just for adults anymore. You've got to have comics for kids - it's important.'" Spiegelman sees a direct relationship between comics and kids learning to read. And for him reading is equal to "survival." " [Reading is] not just some stuffy notion like, 'Ah yes my kid will get into Harvard,' but what it really has to with is this: without a generation of verbally literate people I believe the gang in power can stay in power. You've got to read to be able to sort through all the stuff that...