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...Despite repeated attempts to negotiate a solution to the standoff in the hotbed of Sunni resistance to the Coalition, Tuesday's renewed outbreak of fighting appeared to point to the inevitability of a military showdown. Having gone in hard initially in response to the killing of four American private security operatives, the Marines were pulled back and negotiations opened after the reported killing of hundreds of Iraqi civilians prompted outrage even among Washington's closest allies in Baghdad. Iraqi Governing Council member Adnan Pachachi, who sat alongside First Lady Laura Bush during the State of the Union address, called...
...most dysfunctional agency of all, the FBI has done the most to try to heal itself since 9/11. It is practically impossible to adequately describe how unfit the FBI has become over the past 25 years. The bureau had a long string of abysmal failures that included the botched standoff at Ruby Ridge and the betrayal by Robert Hanssen, who spied for the Russians for years while working inside the FBI. And many of the things that went "according to the book" inside the FBI made no sense at all. For years agents were barred from searching open sources, such...
...outcome is still far from settled. What started as a U.S. counteroffensive against insurgents on two fronts had by the end of last week become a tense standoff in Shi'ite-and Sunni-dominated regions. U.S. officials held talks with Iraqi intermediaries aimed at suspending coalition military assaults, which many pro-American Iraqis believed was doing more harm than good in winning hearts and minds across the country. The diplomatic tack looked more likely to bear fruit in the Shi'ite-dominated south, where fighters loyal to the young Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seemed to be abiding...
...united in the fight against terrorism." Lost Opportunity CYPRUS Greek Cypriots ignored the pleas of the E.U., the U.N. and the U.S. and voted by a margin of three to one to reject a U.N. plan that would have reunited the divided island after 30 years of armed standoff. Turkish Cypriots backed the plan. Ankara announced that Turkish troops will now stay on the island indefinitely and called for international recognition for Turkish Cyprus as a separate state. Some Greek Cypriots voted against the plan because they feared investment in the less developed north would lure tourists away from their...
With a dramatic, deadly raid in a Madrid suburb and sweeps in several countries, antiterrorism efforts in Europe intensified last week. Three suspects in last month's Madrid train bombings blew themselves up as Spanish police engaged them in a standoff Saturday night that also killed an agent. Officials had earlier in the week identified a Tunisian man, Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, as "leader and coordinator" of the train blasts that killed 191, and they had a warrant for his arrest as well as the arrests of five Moroccan accomplices. It wasn't immediately clear whether Fakhet was linked...