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Officials in Washington insist there has been no change in policy. They note that even if Iraq was never acknowledged to be on a target list, Washington during the 1991 Gulf War did issue a veiled threat that it might unleash nuclear fury if Iraq used chemical weapons on U.S. troops. That might have been what kept Saddam Hussein's sarin gas sidelined. Officially, the Pentagon insists the congressionally mandated review "does not provide operational guidance on nuclear targeting or planning." Unofficially, some defense officials describe it as little more than a "self-licking ice cream cone"--a report designed...
Italian authorities were alerted to such a scenario last March when they wiretapped a telephone conversation between a pair of suspected al-Qaeda operatives. In the conversation, Tunisian-born Essid Sami Ben Khemais detailed two ways to unleash an attack. One involved an unidentified "efficient" product that could be stored in tomato cans. When released, it would suffocate victims. At another point, Ben Khemais referred to a makeshift "gas bomb" whose "method," he said, had recently been refined by a Libyan professor...
...will Smiggin Holes work? It already has multiple mottos - "Unleash the Mongrel," considered a big improvement on Salt Lake's lame "Light the Fire Within;" the somewhat less inspired "Winter Wonder Down Under" and the fabulous "If you've got the poles, we've got the holes...
...exceptional or somehow out of place or outside the norm. There is that notion that black excellence is not supposed to be too widespread. I think that when we position people like Cornel West and Skip Gates as the sort of paradigmatic examples of black excellence things like this unleash the possibility for people to question black excellence and to talk shit about black excellence in a way that is really deeply racist...
...Middle East and Gulf region in mid-March to rally support for action against Saddam. That's going to be a tough sell: Although all of Iraq's neighbors would be happy to see the strongman dispatched to history's garbage pail, their concerns that a war would unleash tremendous instability throughout the region have led them to favor simply containing his regime...