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...administrations, however, say that Clarke had a set of proposals to "roll back" al-Qaeda. In fact, the heading on Slide 14 of the Powerpoint presentation reads, "Response to al Qaeda: Roll back." Clarke's proposals called for the "breakup" of al-Qaeda cells and the arrest of their personnel. The financial support for its terrorist activities would be systematically attacked, its assets frozen, its funding from fake charities stopped. Nations where al-Qaeda was causing trouble--Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Yemen--would be given aid to fight the terrorists. Most important, Clarke wanted to see a dramatic increase in covert...
...SENTENCED. FRANCISCO MUGICA and JOSE MARIA ARREGUI, high-ranking members of the Basque separatist group ETA; to a combined 743 years in prison for planning a 1987 attack on a bus carrying military personnel outside the northeastern city of Zaragoza; in Madrid. The men were arrested in the south of France in 1992 and extradited to Spain in 2000. The ambush killed two and injured...
...skeptics, whose number are said to include many uniformed military personnel and State Department and CIA officials are not convinced. Saddam is hemmed in, they say, and as unpalatable as his continued rule in Baghdad may be, any threat he represents is contained by current military deployments. Getting rid of Saddam is desirable goal, they argue, but that doesn't mean it justifies the geopolitical risk and investment of massive U.S. military resources in a deployment that could last many years. The balance of risk against reward is the focus of this week's Senate hearing...
...strikes on Palestinian Authority security installations. But the seven major Palestinian cities on the West Bank, whence the culprits in the latest attacks are likely to have come, have been under the control of the Israeli Defense Force for the past three weeks, with residents - and PA security personnel - subject to almost constant curfew. Israeli spokesmen once again blamed the new outrages on the Palestinian Authority, and the Palestinian Authority issued its now standard denunciation of attacks on Israeli civilians. But the Israeli public knows that the PA is no longer the relevant security authority in hotbeds of militancy such...
...village. At that point the soldiers called in support from the AC-130. (That night the gunship attacked no fewer than six sites.) American sources claim--and Afghan sources deny--that the plane was targeted by antiaircraft fire from inside the compound where a wedding celebration was under way. "Personnel on the AC-130 felt that the weapons were tracking them," said Colonel Roger King, a Pentagon spokesman at Bagram air base, north of Kabul. So the gunship--a flying arsenal loaded with machine guns and a 105-mm howitzer--fired on the compound. Subsequent comments by U.S. Defense Secretary...