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...Musharraf's iron grip on power that has made Washington's own policy toward Pakistan such a target of criticism. While Washington has publicly extolled the virtues of democracy and hoped that Bhutto's return to Pakistan in October would usher in a power-sharing deal with Musharraf, it was also clearly nervous about the instability if the country's strong man were to lose power entirely. Pakistan - the world's second-most-populous Muslim nation, with elements of al-Qaeda and the Taliban controlling lawless mountainous pockets in the northwest - is also the only Islamic state with a nuclear...
Facts About the FISA Bill Joe Klein recently criticized the Restore Act, also known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), claiming that it "would require the surveillance of every foreign-terrorist target's calls to be approved by the FISA court" [Dec. 3]. This is incorrect. The restore Act creates "basket" authorizations to allow widespread surveillance of foreign powers (like al-Qaeda) and their agents. To prevent a repeat of the Bush Administration's extralegal warrantless-wiretapping program, the court must approve the parameters of the group surveillance to ensure that warrants are still obtained for Americans' communications...
...came in the form of European Commission plans to fine carmakers if they fail to meet their emission targets. The proposals could slap annual penalties worth billions of euros on carmakers if they miss targets. The measures are the latest weapon to force them to slash new vehicle emissions from the current level of about 158 grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) per kilometer to 120g/km by 2012. Penalties will start in 2012 at €20 euros ($28.80) per gram of CO2 over the target, and will grow...
...worst-performing sector under the Kyoto Protocol, and transport CO2 emissions in the E.U. grew by 32% between 1990 and 2005 while other sectors reduced their emissions by 9.5% on average over the same period. The group also believes some carmakers are making progress: Fiat has already met a target voluntarily adopted by the industry, to bring emissions down to 140g/km by 2008. Citroen and Europe's second largest carmaker, Renault, are on track to meet this target and Ford and Peugeot are not far off either...
...President was postponed for the eighth time, and is certain to aggravate tensions between rival pro- and anti-Syrian factions. The bombing, said Information Minister Ghazi Aridi, "is a message to the Lebanese that the situation in Lebanon will remain fragile and that security will remain a target...