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...less restrained. Last week British Prime Minister Tony Blair said an al-Qaeda attack in Britain is "inevitable." According to the New York Times, U.S. officials believe that Islamic militants arrested in London early this year for allegedly manufacturing ricin--a castor-bean-derived poison that Saddam may also possess--may have been plotting to tamper with food served to British troops at least at one nearby base...
Last fall, North Korea asserted its “right” to possess nuclear weapons and has withdrawn from nuclear weapons control agreements...
...have only entered once using a credit card, and I have never downloaded." If it's true that Townshend, 57, was sexually abused as a child, that could help explain his best music, which reached into reserves of fear and rage that many other rock musicians only pretend to possess. As both a head-banging rocker and the beseeching man-child who wrote, "See me, feel me/Touch me, heal me"--for Tommy, about a boy who has been molested--was Townshend making a lifelong reply to some primal outrage...
British law exempts people who possess child porn for "legitimate" reasons. If he had been arrested in the U.S., however, it might not matter whether Townshend was using the images for research. In 1997 an American journalist was indicted and later pleaded guilty when a judge did not accept that he was sending and receiving over the Net pornographic pictures of children while researching a story about online pedophiles. Operation Avalanche, the investigation that netted Townshend, began in the U.S. in spring 1999 when a postal inspector came across Landslide, a husband-and-wife operation out of Fort Worth, Texas...
LAST WEEK PRESIDENT BUSH RULED out U.S. military action to take out Pyongyang's suspected nuclear arsenal but then pledged to "lead a coalition to disarm" Saddam Hussein, who isn't believed to possess one yet. Bush and his aides tried to draw a distinction between Iraq and North Korea by pointing to their record of defiance: though Saddam refused for four years to allow the world to check whether he was trying to obtain nuclear weapons, North Korea, until this recent bout of truculence, had at least frozen its plutonium process. That argument glides over the reality that while...