Word: sovereignity
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...Islamic fundamentalism. We have just witnessed the first overthrow of a radical Islamic regime, indeed, the destruction of radical Islam's home base. Yesterday the base was Afghanistan. Today it is a few caves and a few hidden cells throughout the world. Al-Qaeda controls no state, no sovereign territory. It is an outlaw...
...Kamen's vehicles include a Hummer, a Porsche and two helicopters--both of which he helped design and one of which he uses to commute to work each day. He also owns an island off the coast of Connecticut. He calls it North Dumpling, and he considers it a sovereign state. It has a flag, a navy, a currency (one bill has the value of pi) and a mutual nonaggression pact with the U.S., signed by Kamen and the first President Bush (as a joke, we think...
...significantly influencing events - after all, to borrow from Stalin's blunt response to the suggestion that the pope be invited to Yalta in 1944, how many divisions has the king? Rabbani two weeks ago said Zahir was welcome to return to Afghanistan, but as a citizen rather than a sovereign...
...Pakistani influence in Kabul.) And while the U.S. had hoped to see the exiled King Zahir Shah return and take the leading role in convening a new government, Northern Alliance leader Burnharuddin Rabbani made clear Tuesday that the king could return, but as a citizen rather than a sovereign. Pakistan...
...there's anything even halfway reassuring about the anthrax scare, it's that tiny doses sent through the mail can cause only isolated outbreaks. Bioterrorism experts agree that the kind of catastrophic damage haunting our collective psyche requires the resources and weaponry of a sovereign state. Which is why Iraq, the Middle East's dormant volcano, suddenly appears to be smoking at the summit...