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...least not on company time. So last week's comments by Ari Fleischer suggesting President Clinton's failed push for a final peace deal at Camp David helped spark the intifada actually offer some insight into Bush administration thinking. Although Fleischer was later forced by administration higher-ups to retract his statement that "You can make the case that in an attempt to shoot the moon and get nothing, more violence resulted," the press secretary doesn't make this stuff up on the fly. His comment not only tracks with the Bush administration's own hands-off approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Bill Clinton Start the Intifada? | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

...take the offer seriously. EU security chief Javier Solana flew to Riyadh to discuss ways of promoting the initiative. And renewed talk of peace deals even appears to have sparked a mud fight between the Bush administration and its predecessor - presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer was forced on Thursday to retract an earlier statement implying that the Clinton administration had helped spark the intifada by pushing too hard for a final peace agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Crown Prince Abdullah | 3/1/2002 | See Source »

Good: It’s a large black suitcase that has one of the handles that you can extend and retract and it can also be used as a backpack. There’s a top compartment, a middle compartment and a big lower compartment. I take this to most classes. Most of the time I roll...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roll Out! | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...suspected of being an al-Qaeda ringleader and who was arrested in Dubai in July on his way from Pakistan to Europe. After being convinced by Islamic scholars in Dubai of the evils of terrorism, Beghal started talking. (He is now back in France and has attempted to retract his confession.) Beghal has said that while in Afghanistan in March, he received instructions from Abu Zubaydah on a bombing campaign against American interests in Europe, including the Paris embassy. "He's talking about very important figures in the al-Qaeda structure, right up to bin Laden's inner circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate Club | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...suspected of being an al-Qaeda ringleader and who was arrested in Dubai in July on his way from Pakistan to Europe. After being convinced by Islamic scholars in Dubai of the evils of terrorism, Beghal started talking. (He is now back in France and has attempted to retract his confession.) Beghal has said that while in Afghanistan in March, he received instructions from Abu Zubaydah on a bombing campaign against American interests in Europe, including the Paris embassy. "He's talking about very important figures in the al-Qaeda structure, right up to bin Laden's inner circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate Club: Al-Qaeda's Web of Terror | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

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