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...Party (AK). He voted no to the U.S. request before the war, but will back the current bill and expects many of his colleagues to do the same. Diplomats tell TIME the government will first seek broad authorization, leaving the details until later. - By Andrew Purvis and Pelin Turgut Terror Convictions BELGIUM Tunisian-born al-Qaeda member Nizar Trabelsi was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he admitted planning a suicide bomb attack on a NATO military base. Trabelsi...
Mocking the color-coded terror alert system, Franken referred to orange—the second-highest alert level—as “the highest level at which we are encouraged to go to the mall...
...Terror in Najaf The terrorist attack on the Shi'ite mosque in Najaf, Iraq, may have achieved a host of objectives for its perpetrators [Sept. 8]. It created a big dent in the American plans for Iraq. It drove a wedge between America and the Shi'ite majority and scared off Iraqis who had been willing to collaborate with the U.S. It also proved that the Shi'ites still have no protector in Iraq. The best response for the U.S. is to shrink the goals of its mission. The old regime has been eliminated. Leave Iraq to the Iraqis; empower...
...Things fall apart,” Yeats wrote; “the centre cannot hold.” Prefiguring the war, terror and bloodshed that quickly followed the dawn of our new millennium, he spoke of a “blood-dimmed tide” drowning “the ceremony of innocence.” He reads as though scolding a spineless Democratic Party when lamenting that “the best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Eventually, the mystical poem goes farther than we would. When Yeats?...
...very likely. The main reason is that this is a weak field of Democrats. It will only take some good news from the economy or the war on terror, to assure total victory for the Republican party. Daniel J. Gale Shepherdsville...