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...pain. The emotional pitch will remain high at least through Thursday, when Blair is scheduled to testify. but What do we know at this point? Last month, Kelly, Britain's foremost expert on Iraq's weaponry, was found dead in a field near his Oxfordshire home with his wrist slit. Kelly had been the source for bbc correspondent Andrew Gilligan's story about the government "sexing up" the document, and Kelly admitted to his boss that he had met the journalist (although he was vague about what he had told Gilligan). Kelly, as a civil servant, was supposed to brief...
...plausible mystery novel about Jane Austen. Yes, that Jane Austen, the real-life author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane and the Ghosts of Netley, the seventh book in Barron's Jane Austen series, begins with two murders: that of a shipwright, whose throat is slit by an unknown assailant, and that of a ship, a 74-gun British warship intended for use against the Emperor Bonaparte's forces (it's 1808, if you're just tuning in) that was burned in the shipyard where it was being built. Jane is enlisted to investigate by her friend...
...David Kelly, Britain's leading expert on biological weapons and an adviser to the Ministry of Defense, testified before a parliamentary committee looking into whether intelligence on Iraq's weapons program had been hyped, his body was found in a field near his home. Police said he had slit his left wrist...
...afterwards, but the committee doesn't seem to suspect him of anything - a basically unremarkable encounter. Two days later he leaves his house for an afternoon walk, coatless despite unpleasant weather. The following day the police find his body in a nearby field. He had taken some painkillers and slit his left wrist. And then, two days later, the BBC confirms that he was the source for the devastating story after all. The suicide last week of Dr. David Kelly, an advisor to the Ministry of Defense on biological and chemical weapons, inserted a human tragedy into the already bitter...
While attention is diverted to the war in Iraq, hostilities in Afghanistan are on the rise. In the past three weeks, two special-forces men were killed in an ambush, three Afghan soldiers had their throats slit at a lonely checkpoint, and a close ally of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was gunned down in southern Afghanistan. A former top Taliban chief, Mullah Dadullah, told the BBC in a phone interview that the warrior clerics were coming out of hiding to renew their war against Karzai and the U.S.-led coalition backing him. Dadullah claimed they are taking orders directly from...