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...THINGS STAND In the wake of the Post article on secret prisons, most European governments have said their airspace is off limits to CIA flights carrying prisoners to countries practicing torture. A judge in Italy last year ordered 13 CIA operatives arrested after prosectors there said the CIA seized Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, an Egyptian imam, in Milan and sent him to Egypt, where he claims he was tortured. Although President Bush has said the U.S. seeks assurances that suspects sent abroad won't be tortured, CIA Director Porter Goss has acknowledged that "there's only so much...
...your ability to deal with future threats like Iran, like North Korea," Bush began by saying: "Sanger, I hate to admit it, but that's an excellent question." In what may have been a Freudian slip, Bush at one point said "Saddam" for a second before correcting himself to "Osama bin Laden." It came in the course of a story in defense of the domestic surveillance exception that he liked so much, he told it twice. "In the late 1990s," he said, "our government was following Osama bin Laden because he was using a certain type of telephone. And then...
Goss ordered the review amid concerns that sloppy procedures contributed to the recent disclosure that nearly three years ago, CIA operatives in Milan snatched Egyptian terrorist-suspect Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr and flew him to Cairo--where the Islamic cleric claims he was tortured; to throw the Italians off the scent, the CIA reportedly told them that Nasr had fled to the Balkans. The Italian government publicly denies the U.S. insistence that the CIA cleared the caper with Rome's intelligence service in advance, and this summer an Italian court issued arrest warrants for 22 CIA operatives allegedly involved. Milan...
...time, the meeting hardly seemed notable--let alone the start of the world's deadliest partnership. It was late in 1999, and Osama bin Laden was sheltering in Afghanistan, already deep into his plot to attack the World Trade Center. His visitor was a burly young Jordanian, bruised and furious after spending six years inside his country's worst prisons. Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi had traveled to Afghanistan with a proposal for the al-Qaeda chief: he wanted to rally Islam's "true believers" to rise up against corrupt regimes in the Middle East. Bin Laden was skeptical. While...
...support for U.S. government. He said that soft power is not a normative concept and thus it is not always good to employ it. Similarly, hard power, which he described as the use of force, isn’t necessarily worse than soft power, he said. “Osama bin Laden has soft power in the eyes of his following,†he said. Nye criticized the military for trying to create soft power when personnel tried to bribe the Iraqi press to print stories praising Americans. “This squandered one of the greatest resources...