Word: transference
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Reacting to the blast, President Bush said, "The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or nonstate entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action." That was an explicit embrace of Graham Allison's concept of "nuclear accountability." Thus, according to Allison, if Kim Jong Il were to sell a weapon to bin Laden and that weapon were used against the U.S. or one of its allies, then the principle would require the U.S. to "treat this precisely like...
Meanwhile, new fees are sneaking in. Making a comeback is the balance-transfer fee (about 3%). If you transfer $10,000, you could get socked with a $300 charge...
...secret German intelligence report shown to TIME on Wednesday. The report is described in the new book Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program by British investigative journalist Stephen Grey. The complex arrangement was part of the CIA's sprawling practice of extraordinary renditions, the secret transfer of terror suspects to hidden prisons across the world - which has involved the aid of numerous foreign governments and the knowledge of key Western European allies, according to the book, which was shown to TIME by the author. After U.S. officials long refused to confirm the CIA's secret detention...
...group would become more moderate once in power. That hasn’t happened. By repeatedly refusing to recognize Israel, renounce violence, and honor previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements—the conditions set by the West for restarting the flow of millions of dollars in aid and the transfer of taxes collected by Israel to the Palestinian Authority—Hamas has prolonged the suffering of the Palestinians and showed the world just how extreme it has become...
...Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM) was one of 14 "high value" prisoners recently moved to the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from secret CIA prisons overseas. In announcing the transfer on Sept. 6, President Bush also promised to try some of the most important captives in military tribunals, a plan that Congress approved last month...