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Posner elaborates in startling detail how U.S. interrogators used drugs--an unnamed "quick-on, quick-off" painkiller and Sodium Pentothal, the old movie truth serum--in a chemical version of reward and punishment to make Zubaydah talk. When questioning stalled, according to Posner, CIA men flew Zubaydah to an Afghan complex fitted out as a fake Saudi jail chamber, where "two Arab-Americans, now with Special Forces," pretending to be Saudi inquisitors, used drugs and threats to scare him into more confessions...
...will discuss letting the U.N. conduct snap inspections. Souvenir Hunters THE U.K. Thieves posing as tourists made off with a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece worth around $50 million. The work, Madonna of the Yarnwinder, hung in the stairway of Scotland's Drumlanrig Castle. Insurers put up a $160,000 reward for the recovery of the work. Deep Disaster RUSSIA An aging Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, with the loss of up to 9 of its 10 crew members. The vessel was being towed to a scrapyard when pontoons supporting it broke away in a heavy storm, sending...
...demanding an immediate and verifiable halt to North Korea's nuclear weapons program, but they are also sympathetic to Pyongyang's demand for guarantees that it won't be attacked by the U.S. The Bush administration is reluctant to offer any concessions, which would in effect reward North Korea's violation of previous treaties. By assembling a coalition of nations capable, by virtue of their economic ties to North Korea, to press Pyongyang to desist from going nuclear, the Bush administration may have also raised the pressure on the U.S. to, as China's official Xinhua news agency...
...opposed to the one-on-one with Washington demanded by Pyongyang - was a small victory for U.S. diplomacy. But as the August 27 meeting in Beijing draws near, anxiety is growing over what will transpire there. The Bush Administration insists that North Korea not be offered concessions to reward nuclear blackmail, and the presence of China, Russia, South Korea and Japan will certainly add to the pressure on Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear program and submit to a tough inspection and verification regime. At the same time all four countries expect Washington to assuage North Korean concerns, particularly through offering...
...more actively with African leaders and problems, offering aid and promoting cooperation and good governance. Given the strategic concerns, however, good governance may fall down the priority list. Good governance requires transparency, accountability, the rule of law and democracy. But the war on terrorism has reinforced a tendency to reward high-handed authoritarianism when its perpetrators are targeting U.S. enemies. There'll be no complaints, for example, about Malawi's decision last week to ignore its own courts in order to expedite the extradition of five al-Qaeda suspects to the U.S. And good governance has been an exceedingly rare...