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...that U.S. missiles had killed forty Iraqis at a wedding party in western Iraq, has undercut the Bush administration's best efforts to recover from the Arab-world PR disaster of Abu Ghraib. Ironically, part of the Bush administration's emergency PR salvage operation in the wake of the prison-abuse revelations was to hastily send Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to hold talks with Palestinian Authority prime minister Ahmed Qurei, to signal Arab leaders that Washington still sought to restart a negotiation process. But unless such dialogue evolves into a substantial new negotiation...
Inside the Scandal What went wrong and who's to blame for turning Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison into a house of horrors...
...tell one another that if only we were in charge, we might all have a chance of getting along, because there she is, Private England, gloating, holding the leash. And the female general in command was telling reporters last summer that conditions were so much nicer now at the prison that she was worried the prisoners "wouldn't want to leave," as though she expected a spread soon in House & Garden. Nor was there much room for philosophical debate over means and ends or a game of scruples over whether it's O.K. to torture a prisoner who knows where...
SENTENCED. LEA FASTOW, 42, wife of former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow; to a year in prison; in Houston. The heiress to a grocery and real estate fortune pleaded guilty to helping her husband hide income from questionable financial transactions, which contributed to Enron's collapse...
After his grudging public apology for the behavior of U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison, George W. Bush attended a ceremony commemorating the National Day of Prayer. His remarks there were, as we have come to expect from this President, a stirring mix of humility and certainty. "God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice," Bush said. "Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we have faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands...