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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed the forceful opposition from France and Germany as unimportant chatter from "old Europe." Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was responsible for pushing Bush to solicit U.N. support, was reportedly so "incandescent" with rage at France's broadside that he struck a harsh new tone, aligning himself with the advocates of war. "Inspections will not work," he declared, and "it's an open question right now" whether the U.S. would seek further U.N. approval before acting. Yet the Administration is concerned that European resistance could nourish American antiwar sentiment. At the gathering of global elites...
...dictators in the Arab world - Palestine first and then we'll get down to business. These issues were often used as delaying tactics." While jailed in Cairo's notorious Tora Prison, Ibrahim interviewed inmates who were convicted Muslim militants. In Tora on Sept. 11, 2001 he was struck by the range of responses. "The first reaction of everybody in prison was shocked and sympathetic. It was the second moment that some of them began to express a delight, either open or secret, that America had been humiliated and was now tasting the bitter medicine that many of our countries have...
VENEZUELA Struck Out In a sign that a two-month-old general strike is drawing to an end, the National Banking Council announced that banks will resume normal opening hours from Feb. 2. The move followed the reopening of many businesses, which are struggling to avoid bankruptcy. But oil workers at the heart of the campaign vowed to continue. The strike, intended to unseat leftist President Hugo Chávez, is estimated to have cost at least $4 billion and seven lives. Diplomats from six countries met in the capital, Caracas, to help end the conflict...
...road called Jinshui Alley. It was midnight, the street was dark, and safety was on Wang's mind. Six months earlier she had stopped wearing gold jewelry whenever she had to take this walk. As Wang opened the metal gate to her new, middle-class apartment block, an attacker struck from behind, smashing her head with a brick. Wang stumbled, screamed and struggled desperately to get inside the apartment building. She didn't make it. Her assailant spun her around and plunged a watermelon knife into her chest seven times. Then, as neighbors peered out from above, the killer fled...
...home at 3 a.m. from a night market where she had a job washing dishes. At dawn, a neighbor discovered her corpse on the building's stairs. "She had just started climbing when he stabbed her," says the neighbor. She had 38 stab wounds. The Red Dress Killer had struck again...