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...Qaeda, the Taliban's revival spells trouble beyond the region. "Al-Qaeda is able to survive because of its link with the Taliban," says Gunaratna, arguing that a group of foreigners could not stay in Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier province if the Taliban did not vouch for them. In this view, the Taliban is still harboring al-Qaeda--not, as formerly, in Afghanistan but in Pakistan. And al-Qaeda fighters may be joining with the Taliban in operations. A spokesman for Karzai insisted that Pakistanis and Arabs were part of the raiding party that killed seven Afghan policemen...
...maintained that its darkest days were over when it cleansed its corporate suites of such executives as former CEO Bernard Ebbers. But just last week, MCI's outside auditor, KPMG, testified before a Senate committee that it still could not vouch for the company's internal controls. GSA cited a KPMG report as well as reviews of the company conducted by former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and William McLucas as being decisive factors in its decision to suspend the carrier...
Bell said that she and her fellow students stand behind Pring-Wilson. “We indicated we’ve been willing to anything to vouch for his character or do whatever is needed...
...another phalanx of high-level operators gets the wrong idea and a thousand Enrons bloom. And the people best positioned to call them on it will be sitting in offices like the ones that Watkins and Cooper occupied. The new Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires CEOs and CFOs to vouch for the accuracy of their companies' books, is just one sign of what Cooper calls "a corporate-governance revolution across the country...
...wanted to know whether parents and teachers at his school will get to vouch publicly for the Fitz tonight before the committee takes its long-awaited vote on shutting the school down...