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COLOMBIA Deadly Welcome A U.S. spotter plane and 20,000 soldiers and police were not enough to ensure safety in the capital Bogotá, as at least 17 civilians were killed and nearly 60 people were wounded in explosions minutes before Alvaro Uribe was sworn in as Colombia's new...
The U.S. suspended bilateral ties with the Indonesian military in 1999 because of horrifying human rights abuses in East Timor. While the needs of American policy may have changed, Indonesia's military has not. "The fear among pro-reform elements is that the money could provide an opening for the...
But when Moussaoui finally faced his accusers and took the blame, his most defiant statements were simply overruled by the judge. "I'm guilty," said the prisoner, now eager to prove his terrorist credentials. ''I am member of al-Qaeda. I pledge bayat (a loyalty oath) to Osama bin Laden...
After 1954, whenever I heard the pledge recited (in the ritual stream-of-consciousness way that one says, "ThirtydayshathSeptemberAprilJuneandNovembe ralltheresthavethirtyone"), it sounded somehow tampered with and wrong. The original version had been grooved into my brain. I mistrusted the addition of under God first of all on unconscious aesthetic grounds...
The pledge became one of those gestures of an innocent and anodyne "ceremonial deism," like "In God We Trust." It's no big deal--not an organized religious agenda or otherwise a threat to the Constitution but rather a vague reassurance of collective goodwill. If you challenge the pledge, however...