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...first attack on or near the Iraqi capital in nearly two years, U.S. and British warplanes carried out bombing raids on radar installations and command-and-control targets. Pentagon officials said the raid was launched at Iraqi air defense facilities because of an increasingly sophisticated threat against allied planes patrolling the no-fly zone in southern Iraq, set up at the end of the Gulf...
...persuading Clinton, Rich attorney Quinn understood from his White House counsel days how impossible it would be to pardon Pollard and leaned heavily upon the idea of Rich as a consolation prize. The Rich pardon was sold as a sop to Israel that could slide under the radar in this country...
Rich's empire has flourished because of his ability to operate below radar. But the pardon he wished for has magnified his every move, and the relationships he has nurtured have begun to sour. "A lot of people are distancing themselves from Rich," says Lang. Swiss officials are investigating whether Rich's company has complied with laws against money laundering. The longest trade of Rich's career may turn out to be the most foolish...
...Quinn e-mails colleagues, "I think we've benefited from being under the press radar. [White House chief of staff John] Podesta said as much...
...Wednesday, sandwiched between press conferences about the February 9 submarine disaster off Hawaii, the Pentagon took a look back at last week's bombing of Iraq, and quietly dislosed that one of its bombs hadn't done as well as initially advertised. Of the "20 to 22" Iraqi radar sites targeted by its much ballyhooed J-SOW bombs, only half were damaged at all, and most were left unscathed...