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...hours, two waves of eight suicide bombers have attacked the U.S. base in Khost; and 10 French soldiers, part of the NATO force, have been killed in an ongoing battle near Kabul. In his interview, Karzai was sympathetic toward Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who has tried in vain to impose civilian control over the ISI. "Mr. Gilani is a good man," said Karzai. "He has the right intentions. I hope he gets the tools of control. That is for the Pakistani government to decide, and that is for us and the international community to help him with...
Where does the truth hide? Truth is my death; truth is my life. Before the apocalypse comes, I search in vain for a way to protect you, My Egypt, my homeland...
...legislative chambers in 2006, party leaders have devoted a lot of time and energy passing bills, on everything from global warming and children's health care to embryonic-stem-cell research and a windfall tax on oil companies. Now it's true that they knew their efforts were in vain - that their bills either had no chance of passing, or they would force President Bush to deliver on his veto threat, as he has done twice on legislation to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). But in some respects, that's beside the point - because...
...Instead, the former Bosnian Serb leader, one of the world's most wanted men, was hiding in plain view amid the drab, anonymous housing blocks of New Belgrade, a suburb of the Serbian capital. He was nabbed not by NATO, whose forces had spent 12 years in a vain and sometimes desultory search for him, but by the security forces of Serbia - the country whose designs for grandeur he had so ardently tried to further. In the end, it seems, political will rather than operational cunning is the force that will bring Karadzic, 63, to a court in the Hague...
...Mandela is no longer comfortable with inquiries or favors. He's fearful that he may not be able to summon what people expect when they visit a living deity, and vain enough to care that they not think him diminished. But the world has never needed Mandela's gifts - as a tactician, as an activist and, yes, as a politician - more, as he showed again in London on June 25, when he rose to condemn the savagery of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. As we enter the main stretch of a historic presidential campaign in America, there is much that...