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...will reward it at the polls. That was the powerful lesson of local elections held last Nov. 29 in New Delhi. The polls opened while the siege of Mumbai was still going on, and many political observers expected that the BJP, which had relentlessly portrayed Congress as "soft on terror," would win. Instead, young voters gave the ruling Congress Party credit for the Delhi Metro, a new mass-transit system, and re-elected Sheila Dikshit, the city's 71-year-old chief minister. "Age was not the criteria," Deshmukh says. The calculation was, he explains, much simpler. "If you deliver...
...equipment to Islamabad. But Pakistan’s anti-Taliban stance did not signal a genuine commitment to change its repressive domestic regime. Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, whom President George W. Bush praised as one of America’s strongest allies in the war on terror, was the fourth military dictator to seize power in that troubled nation’s six decades of existence. Last year, Musharraf was forced to resign by a democratically elected coalition government, but conditions on the ground have barely improved; Amnesty International USA continues to document hundreds of “disappearances?...
...Bybee has been called the "forgotten man" in the mounting furor over the CIA's harsh interrogation of imprisoned terror suspects - but he's quickly assuming a leading role. Though the mild-mannered lawyer has attracted little public attention, as a top Justice Department official he approved an array of so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" against alleged al-Qaeda members that many observers call torture. They include forcing prisoners to stay awake for a week or more, waterboarding them and trapping them with an insect to exploit their fear of bugs...
...Certainly progress and accountability are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In striving to hit that middle ground, President Obama released the CIA interrogation memos and last week left the door open to prosecuting former Bush Administration officials who sanctioned the harsh interrogation of terror detainees. But the fact that the nation, or at least the national media, spent the next few days debating the finer points of the insult slap and waterboarding, shows how easily the search for justice can overshadow everything else. Obama is now at a juncture in his agenda where he will need to bring together as many...
...number of Gitmo interrogations. His greatest success was the interrogation of Abu Jandal, bin Laden's former bodyguard. After the 9/11 attacks, Soufan's interrogation of Abu Jandal yielded a rich trove of information on al-Qaeda, including the identities of some of the 9/11 attackers and the terror group's top leadership. (See pictures from inside Guantanamo...