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...Baghdad. The Europeans simply agreed to restate the existing consensus - that Iraq must comply with UN disarmament requirements, or else. That, after all, is the position codified in UN Security Council resolution 1441, which was adopted unanimously two weeks ago. The U.S. has begun sounding out European allies on troop commitments in the event that military action becomes necessary - the responses will vary, but for most of the Europeans, military aid will be conditional on the inspectors either being blocked by Iraq in the course of their work, or else turning up clear evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction...
...Taliban and al-Qaeda have no shortage of weapons; they're channeling them in from Pakistan." Afghan intelligence officials believe the Taliban and al-Qaeda have set up a network along the border of what the military calls "enablers," those who provide money, hide weapons and spy on U.S. troop movements. The Taliban, they say, have secretly re-established councils throughout most of Paktika province...
...safe houses. Later, according to U.S. Army officials, small groups of between four and a dozen terrorists from the camps cross the border amid the flow of civilian traffic. Once inside Afghanistan, the Americans say, the terrorists are assisted by abettors who provide money, pass on information about U.S. troop movements and safeguard supplies. Loaded with equipment and intelligence, the al-Qaeda forces then move out to harass American troops. Since the U.S. forces cannot cross into Pakistan, they can only try to catch the terrorists after they re-enter Afghanistan...
...number of other Council members have also refused to endorse some of the inspection terms proposed by the U.S. that they view as designed to be rejected by Baghdad. Chief among these is the demand that Baghdad allow foreign military units to set up bases inside Iraq and send troop contingents along on inspections. Negotiations between France and the U.S. have failed to resolve the deadlock. Still, there are signs that a consensus is possible over a compromise that sets Iraq tougher new inspection terms - such as requiring that Baghdad make a declaration of all of its current non-conventional...
...photographs themselves, this is reflected in a consummate lack of all human presence in all but a few of the images. Ristelhueber instead chooses to focus on the vestiges of conflict--the remnants of troop movements, of battles, of actions taken and not being taken. She is particular fond, for example, of images of rusty cans and shells in the middle of a huge desert . (One is reminded often, in perusing the exhibit, of P.B. Shelley's timeless words from Ozymandias: "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away...