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...Laden should know by now that if he does manage a terrorist attack, the only thing he should count on is a hardening of America and its allies' positions. Especially in Europe: An attack there, such as the foiled plot in Germany, would sweep away European unhappiness about secret prisons and Guantanamo, once again lining Europe behind the U.S. in its war against al-Qaeda...
...without a usable Simpsons quote?) Starting out as a family cartoon, it grew a cast of hundreds that spanned celebrity (Rainier Wolfcastle), religion (the de-diddly-vout Flanders family), business (C. Montgomery Burns) and immigration (Apu). But maybe its best and favorite subject has been TV itself--"Teacher, mother, secret lover!" For all the series' ups and downs, it is still the Best. TV Show. Ever...
...Welcome to Diego Garcia - 6,720 acres of restricted military base on a low-lying, depopulated atoll 1,000 miles from the nearest continent. Back in 1966, the U.S. signed a secret agreement with Great Britain allowing the Pentagon to use the Indian Ocean territory as an airbase in exchange for a big discount on Polaris nuclear missiles. Three years later, hundreds of Navy seabees arrived by ship and began pouring out the 12,000-foot runway that would become a bulwark of American Cold War strategy in the region, and a key launching pad for the first and second...
...region. He was in the Beirut embassy when it was bombed by Hizballah in 1983, and he dug through the rubble for his lost colleagues. His proudest moment was raising the flag in post-Taliban Kabul, reopening the U.S. embassy. He was a co-author of a secret 2002 State Department assessment called "The Perfect Storm" that argued against a U.S. invasion of Iraq. He won't talk about that now except to say, "It accurately reflected my views at the time." His current views may not be all that different. He remains painfully aware of the prevailing Arab "defensiveness...
...Bush had a long-planned trip to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Sydney, and moved his departure up a day to make the Iraq stop. Journalists expecting to travel on Air Force One to Sydney were contacted in secret Saturday afternoon, told that a trip to Iraq was to take place the next day and were asked to tell no one except a single editor and their spouse. Bush left the White House by car (rather than helicopter) Sunday after 7 p.m. without a motorcade. At Andrews Air Force Base he boarded Air Force One in its hangar...