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...paramilitary van, from his home in Tolosa to a police cell in Madrid. It was there, claims Martxelo Otamendi - the last managing editor of the now banned Basque-language daily Egunkaria - that his ordeal began. While police interrogated him about his newspaper's alleged links to the Basque separatist terror organization ETA, he claims they had him stand naked in his cell for three days, with a chance to sit down only every five hours. Otamendi, 45, says the police humiliated him for his homosexuality, telling him to "take the position I use when my lover and I make love...
...ideological lines, outlawing any aggression that violated a country's sovereignty. Bush the younger is trying to convince them to violate Iraq's sovereignty to the extent of invading and occupying the country, on the grounds that Iraq has failed to destroy prohibited weapons that could be used in terror attacks. And that's not exactly a no-brainer for the Security Council...
...everyone starts to pay attention. The same thing is true with the war. There are many people out there who don’t live in big, target cities; their children won’t serve in the army either. For them, come peace or war, terror or security, their lives won’t be affected. So they don’t care. But make them put money on the outcome of the war—or not-war—and their apathy would melt away...
...Even if terror attacks were halted, Sharon and the Palestinians remain fundamentally divided over where the borders might be drawn between two states. That's an issue on which they may need a little forceful help from the international community, and yet the parameters of a settlement is an issue on which President Bush remained curiously silent. The administration has adopted its stance from Sharon himself - Israel is not required to make any movement towards ending its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and curbing settlement activity before the intifada ends. It's a significant break with U.S. policy...
...billion in disaster preparedness training funds to state and local governments. Most first responders, including firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians haven't seen a penny of that money, yet they are being asked to prepare for every conceivable threat - and to calm rising concern amidst heightened terror alerts...