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...wake of unprecedented political turmoil and facing further criticism about the war in Iraq, gaps in the President’s commitment to uphold U.S. values in the War on Terror are clear. The recent success of Senator John McCain’s, R-Ariz., anti-torture legislation indirectly questioned the administration’s commitment to upholding human rights; the amendment received an overwhelming 90-9 victory in the Senate. But Vice President Dick Cheney threatened to veto the legislation unless altered to exempt the CIA from the amendment, suggesting the measure not be applied to counter-terrorism operations...
...deemed “threats to American sovereignty” by organizations like the New American Century. “For these people,” he said, “9/11 was like manna from heaven,” as it resulted in the war on terror and gave license to attack the concept of multilateralism. Sands then explained how lawyers working for the Defense Department created the legally unprecedented category of “unlawful combatants” to deny captured suspects the rights that covenants like Geneva were supposed to protect. Sands also cited administration memos arguing...
...stubborn side kicked into high gear. "I'm not going to leave here until we get an agreement," she told an aide. She decided to delay her departure for Asia and return to Jerusalem after paying a condolence call on Jordan's King Abdullah in response to the Amman terror attacks...
...talks, Israel was insisting that its own security personnel continue to screen the gateways, particularly the currently closed Rafah crossing linking Gaza to Egypt. The Israelis wanted to post surveillance cameras at the crossing to screen for suspicious individuals, weapons and even large sums of cash that could finance terror cells. But the Palestinians balked, arguing that this amounted to occupation by proxy...
Sajida Rishawi was meant to become a poster girl for suicide terror. But she is inspiring revulsion, not veneration, in Jordan and beyond. The 35-year-old Iraqi woman from the restive Sunni city of Ramadi had traveled to Jordan intending to be the fourth bomber in last week's suicide attacks on hotels in Amman. Instead, Jordanian sources tell TIME, she was arrested Sunday morning in the historic city of Salt, after fleeing the Radisson SAS hotel and making her escape by taxi. The sources say that she headed for the western Jordanian city, known for its radical Islamists...