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...insurgency, Allawi said, is overblown by Western media coverage - in fact, he claimed, it is confined to three out of Iraq's 18 provinces, and most of southern and northern Iraq is tranquil enough to hold elections tomorrow. He might want to check in with the British troops in the "tranquil" south he described, because they tell the BBC that last month alone one base at Amarrah suffered 853 separate attacks, the most frequent combat experienced by a British army unit since the Korean...
...think it's a contradiction to say it wasn't overblown, but now [the organizers have] more or less answered the skepticism. They weren't ready six months ago. I was here in April, and when I got back here in July, the difference was astonishing...
Remember the midlife-crisis motorcycle: a graying guy brags that he traded in his wife for a Harley-Davidson? That's a bit overblown--or, at least, an exception to the rule. According to a new survey by the Motorcycle Industry Council, 74% of riders older than 50 are married. And the percentage of riders over 50 has risen to 25%, a trend that's likely to continue as boomers age. "Before the boomers," says Tom Watson, marketing director at Harley-Davidson, "older people stopped riding, but boomers have redefined...
...While the new threat may be overblown, one concern is that possessing a nuclear-armed sub might make Pyongyang even less willing to freeze its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang scoffed at a U.S. suggestion last month that it follow Libya's example by abandoning its nukes, calling the American offer a "sham." And the North has canceled high-level talks with Seoul, accusing it of kidnapping the 468 North Korean defectors who arrived in the South last week via Vietnam. Another round of multilateral talks on the North's nuclear program is due to start in September, but the chances...
...faulty intelligence lead to an overblown scare over smallpox? The Administration said the possibility of a smallpox attack by Iraq strengthened its case for war--and necessitated a major inoculation campaign. By mid-June, some 627,000 military employees and nearly 40,000 civilian first responders and health-care workers had been vaccinated. But this month's Senate report on prewar intelligence has concluded that the CIA's 2002 estimate that there was "an even chance" Saddam had weaponized smallpox was "not supported" by the evidence and says the agency now admits it has "no evidence that Iraq ever weaponized...