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...shots of Iraqis "sanitizing" suspect sites a few days before inspectors turn up: bulldozers cleaning up traces of activity, trucks hauling away material. They would love to play intercepts of communications from Iraqi officials ordering the clearances--or the tapes they have recorded of Iraqi security men conspiring to plant their agents as phony scientists. They say U.S. intelligence reports show that several dozen scientists have been spirited out of Iraq to Syria and Jordan...
...sounds persuasive, but Washington doesn't have a flawless track record on making such intelligence allegations stick. For example, last fall the CIA pointed to satellite snaps of construction under way at the al Tuwaitha complex near Baghdad as proof that Iraq was rebuilding its nuclear-bomb plant. After 12 visits there sampling the soil, testing equipment and checking for radiation, the inspectors could detect no nuclear developments. At three other sites that the U.S. said were resuming production of chemical and biological agents, repeated inspections showed the plants were either inoperative or producing something other than microbes. The Administration...
...with earthly motivations and none-too-resolute convictions but who ultimately come to embrace terror. One such character is Badshah Khan, an underworld foot soldier recruited to the plot and swept up in righteous determination, dutiful loyalty and terrifying excitement. He scouts targets, assesses their vulnerability and helps plant the devices. But Khan is eventually abandoned by his cohorts, left penniless and finally captured. Such portraits reveal more about the roots of terrorism than a thousand theories about the clash of civilizations could. As the U.S. deploys its full military might against Iraq in the face of almost unanimous hostility...
...that Libeskind, the Polish-born son of Holocaust survivors, first glimpsed as a teenager when he arrived in the U.S. by boat with his parents. In the scheme's subtlest gesture, that tower's upper elevation is given over not to offices but to "sky gardens," whole floors of plant life high above the city. This is architecture that is both cerebral and emotional. The scheme moves vertically from grief through commerce to spirit. Burdens are acknowledged. Burdens are released into...
...fight for the Riverside parcels—including the Memorial Drive plot currently rented by the Mahoney’s Garden Center and the Blackstone steam plant which Harvard recently bought—has dragged on for more than three years...