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...House and Senate for a constitutionally proclaimed war, then perhaps we oughtn't embark on it. President George W. Bush took what was arguably undeserved heat during the 2004 campaign when, in a flash of either candor or carelessness, he conceded the point that the war on terror would not end explicitly with, say, a satisfying ceremony on the deck of a battleship during which all of the belligerents sign a peace accord...
Lidia Yusupova Human-Rights Campaigner The lawyer, 45, has made it her life's work to document allegations of executions, disappearances, rapes and torture in Chechnya. "Mass-scale human-rights violations and state-level terror still are the order of the day," she says. Several times she worked with the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, whose "murder sent a signal to mop up 'undesirable elements' and tell the public, 'We don't give a damn what you think.'" Violence, Yusupova believes, has its own logic. "Everyone now is endangered, not only those who live in Chechnya, but those who live in Russia...
...wearing of niqab and full-body burqa in public. Holland's 1 million Muslims have lived under an air of suspicion from the wider society since the 2004 murder of controversial film-maker Theo van Gogh by a Islamist radical. That killing and the subsequent arrests of extremists plotting terror attacks have understandably raised Dutch concerns over violence committed in the name of Islam, but they don't justify the over-kill and subtle bigotry behind the promised ban. Opponents of the move note that only a few score women wear a burqa or niqab in the Netherlands, and that...
Washington may currently be consumed with the topic of whether and how to begin withdrawing from the chaos of Iraq, but the other (forgotten) front in the war on terror is likely to attract more attention in the months ahead. There has always been more support in Congress for bringing al-Qaeda and its Taliban hosts to justice than for waging war in Iraq. And that tendency is sure to grow even stronger given the tide of anti-Iraq-war lawmakers elected to office earlier this month and the arrival of new leadership at the Pentagon...
...Beyond that, U.S. officials say, Afghanistan can't be viewed in isolation. Like the carnival game of Whack-a-Mole - where furry creatures keep popping up out of holes you're not hammering - success in Afghanistan will solve only half of Washington's terrorism challenge. Victory there, officials insist, will mean little in the war on terror if the U.S. fails in Iraq - and ends up providing al-Qaeda and its allies the kind of sanctuary in Iraq that they once enjoyed in Afghanistan. But that's a problem the military wouldn't mind having. For as long...