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When several Italian coast-guard cutters set out from the industrial port city of Taranto on that country's southeastern coast on Oct. 4, 2003, they had specific orders: to detain and board a German-flagged cargo ship called the BBC China, then heading for Libya. The seizure had, in fact, been arranged jointly by the CIA and MI6, the overseas arm of British intelligence. When the agents boarded the BBC China, what they found was anything but routine: five large containers, each carefully packed with precision machine tools, tubes and other bombmaking equipment. The containers amounted to part...
...remote Parchin military facility, which the U.S. says is part of a clandestine nuclear weapons program. Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog headed by Mohamed ElBaradei, will this month start gathering environmental samples and interviewing engineering personnel at the highly restricted site in southeastern Iran. U.S. officials have charged that Iran is using Parchin to study ways to weaponize a nuclear device. Tehran says the site is not connected to its nuclear program, which it maintains is for civilian purposes only, and only agreed to allow access as a confidence-building measure. While the IAEA...
...crisis: poor financial management, a lack of administrative skills and inability to deliver services. With 85% of the population living outside of Honiara, repairing this situation is crucial - and delicate. "The rural people have not felt the real ramsi program," says John Stephenson, the 31-year-old premier of southeastern Makira province. "Most initiatives are centralized," he says. "Sometimes the line of responsibility between the national government and provinces is not clear. Managing resources and exercising authority in my own community is difficult...
...sophisticated modern models. Regarding our purchasing of Patriot PAC-III antimissile systems, China accuses Taiwan of being provocative and of attempting to disturb peace across the Taiwan Strait. Most people in the world have forgotten, however, that it is China that has deployed 610 ballistic missiles along its southeastern coast targeting Taiwan and that these missiles increase at a rate of about 50 to 70 per year. What Taiwan has been striving to achieve is to defend the security, peace and stability of the Asia-Pacific region...
...Mexicans are Hispanic, and both candidates are furiously courting them. Bush won 32% of the Hispanic vote last time and is aiming to get to 40%. But Governor Bill Richardson is a strong Kerry ally. Kerry will win the northern third of the state, while Bush will take the southeastern third, known as "Little Texas." Both will try to take Albuquerque...