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...month, Schmidt was ordered to stop communicating with or about Knabe, or face a fine. Two new books by ex-Stasi agents also portray the secret police as professional men upholding the law of the land. "In our intelligence work we never used methods that led to serious crimes, terror or murder," said one of the authors, Gotthold Schramm, at a press conference. Stasi victims in the audience greeted that statement with loud jeers. Germany was one of the first countries to provide public access to its communist-era secret police files - an estimated 6 million were made available...
...Reclining Nude”—which bears an uncanny resemblance to a chili pepper crossed with a tampon, dyed blue, and gently twisted, over a black and red background—and “Head from Hell,” in which a terror-faced ladydemon attempts to fellate a virile god as he stretches out by Hell’s shore...
Ever since Monday's announcement that it was restoring full diplomatic relations with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the Bush Administration has suggested that the onetime international pariah's decision to dismantle his weapons of mass destruction program was primarily the result of the U.S. war on terror and its toppling of Saddam Hussein. But for a brief moment in December 2003, the actual capture of the Iraqi leader almost delayed the first public sign of the historic rapprochement between Libya and the West...
...Despite President Bush's avowed goal of spreading democracy in the Middle East, Gaddafi's hold on power may be stronger than it was two decades ago, when President Reagan denounced him as a "mad dog" who threatened global security with a "reign of terror." In 1986, in response to a terrorist bombing in Berlin that killed two American servicemen, U.S. aircraft bombed targets, including Gaddafi's home, in what amounted to an aerial assassination attempt...
...much as the Bush Administration would like to believe it, Gaddafi's decision to come in from the cold was not simply a response to the war on terror and the U.S.'s toppling of Saddam and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan before that. In TIME interviews with key Libyan players, including three with Gaddafi going back before 9/11, it was clear that other important factors were also at work. Foremost among them was the collapse of the Soviet empire, which brought down Gaddafi's once-powerful friends in capitals like Moscow, Prague and Bucharest. Another important factor...