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...economy and maximum psychological trauma" raised anxiety even as agents acknowledged they had no idea when, where or how the terrorists might strike. While the Administration did not raise the national alert level from yellow to orange, officials are bracing for the worst and operating on a hair trigger regarding any suspicious activity. Before 9/11, the FBI preferred to keep its targets under surveillance until agents acquired hard evidence of a specific plot. Today the mission is disruption first...
...broader implications of the new study will require further research. People who suffer from chronic inflammatory responses like arthritis may be at higher risk of heart disease. There may also be a cancer link, for among the substances released during the inflammatory response are free radicals that can trigger tumor growth. Maybe that's why doctors' advice to eat more nutrient-rich vegetables and less fat works equally well for a patient who is at risk for cancer or for heart disease. They've been treating the same underlying cause all along...
...claim that it has no such weapons programs. Blix pointedly urged them to reexamine their inventories to make sure that any offending items were declared, because any undeclared programs or stocks revealed in the course of subsequent inspections would put Iraq squarely in breach of 1441 - and almost certainly trigger a military response. The UNMOVIC chief's comments could be read as a subtle warning to the Iraqis that they'd be better off fessing up to any infractions, even if those contradict what was said by Baghdad a week ago, than being caught lying...
...most difficult part of the negotiations leading up to the vote related to the enforcement mechanism. The United States, which wanted Iraqi noncompliance to automatically trigger war, was opposed by a French-led coalition. In true U.N. fashion, the problem was solved through willful ambiguity. The United States says that any violation would justify military action even without further resolutions. Other members of the Security Council think that any use of force has to be authorized by the council...
Even more disturbingly, there is no consensus of what constitutes a material breach of the resolution. The United States, for example, maintains that attacks on U.S. or British airplanes patrolling the no-fly zone, one of which happened just last Friday, could trigger war. After all, the resolution commands Iraq to not “take or threaten hostile acts against…any member state taking action to uphold any council resolution.” But almost no one else agrees...