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...Nazis target specific works, or was it more about grabbing whatever they could? There were definitely works of art they were determined to steal. An example would be the so-called big three from Krakow - Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine, Rembrandt's Landscape with the Good Samaritan and Raphael's Portrait of a Young Man. The Nazis seized them within two months of the 1939 invasion [of Poland]. They didn't go where the works of art were supposed to be hanging in the museums. They went to the country house where they had been hidden because their intelligence...
...tongues, the three men did give up a great deal of information. One of the CIA memos, dated July 13, 2004, described Mohammed as "a key intelligence source for the U.S. government on al-Qaeda plots and personalities." It says he provided "information on al-Qaeda strategic doctrine, probable targets, the impact of striking each target, and likely methods of attacks inside...
...hard to find reasons why the regime of Muammar Ghaddafi may be loath to accept responsibility for the attack even it agrees to compensate the victims. For one thing, to accept responsibility for a terror attack on a U.S. target that killed 270 people might still invite reprisals - indeed, U.S. counterterrorism officials told the New York Times Wednesday that the trial had showed the limits of using criminal law as a weapon against terrorism, because the real authors of the attack remained unpunished. Read the subtext of those comments, and it's plain to see why there's unlikely...
...press conference after the special session. "I have a message to all of the brothers, the journalists, and all the politicians," Attiya said, "What has happened is so big and sad and it reached all of the Iraqi people in all its factions, because this act didn't target the government or a specific sect in Iraq, or the security apparatus performance, or other blocks in the parliament. But this targeted all the Iraqi people." He went on to say that Iraqis "should stand in a cohesive way with its national government security apparatus who stays awake all night...
...telephone and sheepishly said hello. "I hear they hired some young whippersnapper over there," he said, "and wanted to introduce myself." Then, ending the small talk, he handed down Novak Rule No. 1. "In my world, you have a choice ... you can either be a source or a target ..." I gulped for air and wisely chose the "source" category, after which he growled, "Good," and hung...