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...Thailand for the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting. There are two ways of looking at such confabs. On one hand, it?s sort of laughable. Nothing real ever comes out of such meetings. They pass resolutions but they mean little. APEC is particularly feeble. It?s biggest goal of creating a free trade zone over the next decade among its 21-member nations isn?t going to happen. The group is far flung, including all the nations lining the pacific. If anything, the rise of regional trading blocs seems more likely than Chile and China suddenly singing Kumbaya together...
...working principle of professional interrogators that every detainee wants to tell his story. It did not take long for Riduan Isamuddin--the al-Qaeda operative better known as Hambali--to prove that rule. In fact, it took less than two weeks. After his Aug. 11 arrest in southern Thailand, al-Qaeda's top man in Asia was turned over by Thai authorities to his mortal enemies, agents of the U.S. According to reports they wrote dated Aug. 22 and Aug. 26, copies of which were obtained by TIME, Hambali confessed to his involvement in recent terrorist attacks that have left...
Hambali and his lieutenants were also charged with casing targets, including the U.S and British embassies in Bangkok, various nightclubs in Thailand and shopping complexes frequented by Westerners in the elite Makati district of Manila. Jewish and Israeli sites received close attention. Though anti-Semitism is central to al-Qaeda's creed, the group has not traditionally focused on attacking Jews. That may have changed last November, when suicide bombers struck a Mombasa hotel frequented by Israelis, killing 13 people, and two shoulder-launched missiles were fired at an Israeli plane nearby. The Kenyan attacks may presage more to come...
...that 5% of kids may actually be genetically predisposed to resist change: "These are kids that cried when the nursery door slammed." The good news, though, is that the experience can ultimately be positive. In the early 1990s, Gerner's research comparing more than 1,000 students in Egypt, Thailand and the U.S. verified what everyone knew anecdotally: children growing up in different countries are more open to other cultures and languages and are less apt to stereotype...
...following 9/11 turn into overwhelming contempt and hostility, due primarily to George Bush. He has damaged the U.S. more profoundly than 100 Osama Bin Ladens ever could. We have lost the world's hearts and minds because Bush has neither. How can anyone forget Vietnam? D. Childs Thailand...