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Israel is the only country that has openly confronted the difficult issue of protecting the civil liberties of the ticking bomb terrorist. The Israeli Supreme Court recently ruled that despite the potential benefits of employing non-lethal torture to extract information, the tactic is illegal. Brutal torture, including lethal torture, is commonplace in nearly every other Middle Eastern and Muslim country. Indeed, American authorities sometimes send suspects to Egypt, Jordan and the Philippines precisely because they know that they will be tortured in those countries...
There is also an entirely different tactic the U.S. could adopt in taking on Baghdad. Robert Scales, a retired major general who used to run the U.S. Army War College, says the Americans should avoid door-to-door battles and instead cordon off the capital with a loose chain of tanks and armored vehicles. This porous ring would allow civilians to flee the city center, where Saddam's soldiers--and perhaps the Iraqi leader himself--would be holed up, anxiously waiting for a "mother of all battles" that would never materialize. "You can be patient, with a minimum loss...
...Jiang's ideas. Jiang's real plans are unknown, and China watchers are resorting to a kind of East Asian Kremlinology to guess what's coming. One theory is that Jiang's supporters are bluffing-that the threat the 76-year-old leader will stay is really a bargaining tactic to win his cronies key posts under Hu. Another possibility is that the pro-Jiang propaganda is just some last-minute image burnishing. But Jiang's rivals aren't taking any chances. They have started circulating essays about another communist leader who "didn't keep up with the times"--Leonid...
...time of release, Mr. O'Grady's public comments acknowledged that the movie was not his story." What changed? Just before the film's release, O'Grady learned that Fox was advertising the movie during the Discovery Channel documentary Behind Enemy Lines: The Scott O'Grady Story--a tactic he says exploited him. (The channel is named in the suit.) According to his complaint, "Captain O'Grady was also troubled that the 'hero' in the Fox movie used foul language, was portrayed as a 'hot dog' type pilot, and disobeyed orders." O'Grady claims that earlier this year Fox "admitted...
...cardinal rules of battle is to capture the high ground and blast away at the enemy below. Perhaps remembering his days as an army commando, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is employing the same tactic on his country's politicians. On Aug. 21, he clamped 29 new amendments onto Pakistan's Constitution? legal alterations that his critics say are designed to make his lofty position unassailable...