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...overstretched troops. He wants to increase funding for inspecting cargo at ports and on airplanes and to create a single national terrorist watch list. He wants NATO to play a larger role in Afghanistan, where he says al-Qaeda is "regrouping and strengthening," and promises to get tough with Saudi Arabia, a source of terrorist funding and extremist teachings. Kerry supports the Patriot Act but wants to strengthen some measures in it, like those targeting money laundering, and ease others that restrict civil liberties...
...options for curtailing, for example, the nuclear ambitions of Iran and North Korea. He will confront a seething Muslim world unsettled by the war in Iraq and the plight of the Palestinians. And he may well see bin Laden--inspired extremists try to overthrow the government in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, procure weapons of mass destruction (WMD) or stage another attack on U.S. soil--or all of the above...
...Qatar, as well as to the U.S., Australia, Canada, England and Brazil. But Yang doesn't try to hide the substances contained in little glass vials that he brings home from his travels. They're lined up on the windowsill of his Beijing office, affixed with labels such as "Saudi sweet." As senior vice president of China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), Yang is responsible for the state-owned company's efforts to secure oil and gas supplies all over the globe. The samples of crude are souvenirs that testify how far he must roam in his search...
...Naipaul's insistence that Asian Muslims are trapped in their history also blinds him to the possibility that situations might change. He recently told the (London) Observer that "there are certain countries which foment [religious war], and they probably should be destroyed, actually." Asked if he meant Saudi Arabia, Naipaul replied: "I would like to think so, yes," adding that Iran "has to be dealt with, too." Naipaul ignores evidence that Iran is going through a tremendous internal struggle, that Tehran's free-thinkers, women's activists and civil libertarians daily challenge the power of the mullahs who rule their...
...Baghdad to topple his regime. In a closed-door chat between Saddam and a senior aide just before the Gulf War began, the report says, he had ordered that "germ and chemical warheads ... be in [military officers'] hands ASAP" and targeted to hit Riyadh and Jeddah, "the biggest Saudi cities with all the decision-makers and where the Saudi rulers live," as well as "all the Israeli cities." He had squelched the Kurdish rebellion by gassing villages and put down the Shi'ite uprising in the wake of the Gulf War with the help of nerve...