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...Powell doesn't get off that easily, because it's not only the President's Niger claim that is now under a shadow of doubt. The Secretary of State began his February 5 presentation to the UN Security Council - supposedly the best-scrubbed version of the indictment against Saddam - with the promise that "every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence." Three months after coalition forces have taken control of Iraq, it's worth asking how many of Powell...
...executed. More than 200 M.P.s from all parties have signed a motion calling on the British inmates at Guantánamo to be sent home for trial. Others think the tribunals could be made to work, but only with a major overhaul. Says Michael Ancram, the Conservative shadow foreign secretary: "The defendants must have their rights respected. The charges they face must be clear, and they must have the right to proper representation." Matthias Kelly, chairman of the Bar Council of England and Wales, warned the U.S. not to "demean democracy by descending to the standards of those...
...live less than a mile from Arlington National Cemetery. Somewhere around 10 p.m. each evening, a lone bugler stands on a hillside underneath the shadow of a moonlit tree and sounds his mournful tune into the darkness...
This sort of language perturbs Wake Forest's Kimball, who recently wrote the book When Religion Becomes Evil. "This is an area that lives with a history of crusades and in the shadow of colonialism," he says. "The image of an overwhelming military power coming in already provokes major questions about deeper U.S. intentions. If you add an aggressive missionary presence, it will be easy to see this as a kind of American Christian triumphalism." Says Azzam Tamimi, director of the London-based Institute of Islamic Political Thought: "Wherever I go, people say, 'Haven't you heard about American missionaries...
Here, in the shadow of skyscrapers with names like Rinogen and Zanotech and in the midst of high-pressure students with goals like saving the human race and making a ton of money, is a thriving, quirky neighborhood split between biotech- boomers and long-time Cantabrigians, old and young, a spectrum of races and classes and goals unlike any I’ve ever seen...