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...outrage have done nothing to stop the killing. Immediately after labeling the Janjaweed's slaughter genocide, Powell told lawmakers, "No new action is dictated by this determination"--despite the fact that the international Genocide Convention, signed by the U.S. and 134 other countries, obligates signatories to "prevent and to punish" genocide where it is occurring. Already stretched thin in Afghanistan and Iraq and wary of intervening in another Muslim state, the U.S. has ruled out sending troops to Africa's largest country, throwing its support instead behind a proposal to deploy several thousand African observers, not to halt the violence...
...tyrannical infidel and blasphemous state." Anyone associated with it, he continues--especially soldiers and police, whether or not they are good Muslims--may be murdered, as "they do not represent themselves; they are means in the hands of the tyrants." Even Muslims "who pray" may be slaughtered to punish the Iraqi government or U.S. forces. "If the infidels have good people among them, and our fighting against them necessitates annihilating these good people, we are permitted to kill them because we are ordered [by God] to do so," he says...
Watching the game, it was clear this defense was tired of no-contact scrimmages and blocking drills. They were hungry to punish the competition and ready to erase all doubts about filling the Balestracci void...
...against the U.S. The government of President Pervez Musharraf has told Aziz to tone down his rhetoric, but he has refused. "I told them that my God is Allah, not Bush or Musharraf," he says. "I openly tell my students to go for jihad, to fight for Muslims and punish those who have occupied Muslim lands...
...Saddam Live Re your notebook item "Saddam's Latest Foes" [July 12], on the former dictator's first appearance before the Iraqi tribunal: Why can't we punish Saddam Hussein and let him live, provided he agrees to cooperate with the new Iraqi government? He is responsible for the crisis in Iraq, so let him fix the things he destroyed. Let the Iraqis vent their anger on the person who made them suffer, instead of on coalition troops. Saddam's dictatorship is gone forever, and killing him is not a solution. Why not let him become?under strict supervision...