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...always been obsessed with building. The Pharaonic size of his enterprises--vast palaces, gigantic mosques, even the idea of an atom bomb--reflect his self-image as history's hero. He never forgets he was born in Tikrit, home nine centuries ago to the great Saladin, the Islamic victor in the Crusades. Saddam's latest Baghdad palace features columns topped with huge replicas of his own head bearing Saladin's helmet. He shaped the minarets on the grand new Mother of All Battles mosque to resemble the Scud missiles he fired at Israel during the Gulf War. These things give...
...that the attacks - and the 3,000 victims they claimed - were the work of officials in the U.S. government and military, looking for an excuse to launch war on Afghanistan and Iraq. "If the energy lobby was the main beneficiary of the war in Afghanistan, the biggest victor of Sept. 11 was the military-industrial lobby," Meyssan writes. "Its wildest dreams have now been fulfilled...
...Victor Bannykh, Secretary of State for International Cooperation of Ukraine, Gen. Victor Gaiciue, Minister of Defense of Moldova, Ambassador Armen Kirakossian from Armenia, and Gen. David Tevzadze, Minister of Defense of Georgia took part in the panel...
...Victor S. Lelyveld ’02 also noticed increased Springfest advertising this year, though he said he would have appreciated more information about the event...
...months after a presidential election led to at least 35 deaths in violent demonstrations, Madagascar looked to be on the verge of an outcome. The two candidates, incumbent Didier Ratsiraka and self-declared President Marc Ravalomanana, agreed to a recount of the votes, and, if that produces no clear victor, to a new ballot under international supervision. In the election Ratsiraka apparently won 42% of the vote to Ravalomanana's 46%, but the Supreme Court annulled the result last week...