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...leaders who met the next morning represented just a first round: about one-third were Iraqi exiles; the rest were drawn from inside the country. "At the beginning there was a sense of a standoff between the outsiders and the insiders, but as the day wore on, you saw them sitting down with each other at the tables. I thought that was a good thing," says Garner. One Shi'ite cleric stood up and quoted Abraham Lincoln, much to Garner's delight...
...talks in Beijing have not gone well. Discussions between U.S. and North Korean diplomats aimed at exploring ways to ease the standoff over the communist country's nuclear program broke off Thursday, a day early, with North Korea warning that it had already developed nuclear weapons and threatening to conduct a "physical demonstration" of its capability. The threat followed Wednesday's comments by a Russian diplomat engaged with the issue that a "catastrophic development" may be days away, and suggests that the North Koreans may planning to test a nuclear device - or, at least, that they want Washington to believe...
...completely misguided." The first court hearings will start in New York City next month, Ntsebeza said. - By Peter Hawthorne/Cape Town Nuclear Games NORTH KOREA Pyongyang's surprise agreement to take part in talks with Washington and Beijing this week raised hopes of a peaceful resolution to the long standoff over its nuclear program. But evidence emerged that 20 scientists and military defectors may have been smuggled out of North Korea over the past six months - suggesting that the U.S. intelligence might always have had the upper hand. The reported operation to spirit out the defectors was complex, involving the Pacific...
...What role Blix and UNMOVIC play in the lifting of sanctions will inevitably emerge from a deal between the U.S.-led coalition and Russia and France. There's more than a whiff in their standoff of the politics of oil. France and Russia signed multibillion dollar contracts with Saddam's regime to develop Iraqi oil fields after sanctions, and they want those contracts respected. But even as Washington is concerned to allay Arab - and, particularly, widely-held Iraqi - suspicions that the U.S. seeks to control Iraq's oil wealth, it will also counter the Russians and French by arguing that...
...standoff in Basra underscored a central dilemma facing the war planners as they plot their final assault on Saddam's regime: the longer the allies remain handcuffed by their desire to limit collateral damage, the longer the conflict will be--and perhaps the deadlier for coalition troops. "The war ultimately will boil down to how many of our soldiers we are willing to sacrifice to keep dead Iraqi civilians off al-Jazeera," says a Navy officer at the Pentagon. Defense officials say that as the battle for Baghdad is joined in coming weeks, the U.S.'s unusually tight restrictions...