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Confirming individuals’ affiliations with the University is routine, Rollins said. But she said this case is unusual because the vague reports did not say what school Bowers supposedly taught at or the rank Bowers was supposed to have held...
Confirming individuals’ affiliations with the University is routine, Rollins said. But she said this case is unusual because the vague reports did not say what school Bowers supposedly taught at or the rank Bowers was supposed to have held...
This ID would require one virtual strip search instead of many real ones. Durbin says the card would remove the anonymity of a Mohamed Atta but not the privacy of others. With a card, Dingell could have confirmed his identity (though he made a point of not pulling rank). With the presumption that he wasn't a terrorist, a once-over with a wand--with his pants on--would have lent credence to his claim that he possessed an artificial hip, not a gun. The Durbin card would at least let us travel with our clothes...
...Arafat's organization officially insisted that it remains committed to the cease-fire, but it was the organization's own rank-and-file members that claimed responsibility for the latest terror attack inside Israel. And the sharp uptick in violence over the past week will further darken prospects for any resumption of dialogue - already grim in light of suspicion over Mr. Arafat following the discovery of an arms shipment bound for the Palestinian territories from Iran...
...Musharraf's resolve will naturally be tested by the rank-and-file Islamists on the streets, but he easily contained their noisy protests against his support for the war in Afghanistan, and is unlikely to have much trouble doing so again. The crucial test, however, will come from within his own security services. The Islamist organizations targeted by General Musharraf have served as de facto proxies for Pakistan's intelligence services, cultivating a reserve of militant Pakistanis willing to be recruited and trained for jihad both in Afghanistan and Kashmir, in service not only to their own brand of radical...