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...Jarrar - a senior Hamas militant in the West Bank town of Tubas - to surrender. M'khisan was given a flak jacket and sent to Jarrar's door, where he was killed in a burst of gunfire. The army said it was trying to prevent deaths by having M'khisan warn any civilians who might have been inside. But the Israeli human-rights group B'tselem said he was used as a shield. GERMANY Inundated Cities As floodwaters receded in Austria and the Czech Republic, they rose in Germany. The Elbe River reached a historic high, sending thousands of people fleeing...
...been a bad week for the Bush administration's anti-Saddam campaign. And that's not because of the Iraqi dictator's florid warning that any U.S. invasion would end in "disgraceful failure." The problem is that Saddam has also made plain his plan to take advantage of Washington's comparative isolation over going war in Iraq by playing hard for the middle ground. The Iraqi leader's speech reiterated offers to negotiate over arms inspections - albeit on his own terms, which so far remain unacceptable to the U.N. But the Iraqi leader knows he can always adjust his position...
Isolating Riyadh, though, carries risks. Western diplomats warn that the al-Saud clan, which has ruled the kingdom for the past century, is the only Western-leaning institution left in a fundamentalist state that is growing younger, poorer and more radical. "Let's say we decided to split sheets with the Saudis. What would replace them would not be a pretty sight," says a U.S. diplomat. "You could see another Taliban. There's no moderate group that could come in and take over...
HOLD THE TUNA An FDA advisory panel has urged the agency to warn pregnant women to limit the amount of canned tuna they eat because it contains mercury, which can harm the nervous system of an unborn child. (Last year the FDA advised pregnant women not to eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel or tilefish, but it did not include tuna on the list.) Health officials say there is no need for women to cut out tuna entirely but advise that it may be prudent to limit consumption to one can a week if they eat other fish...
...jeopardize the position of the U.S. and its closest allies in the Arab world may give the President's political handlers pause. Hawks will argue that he has before him an historic opportunity to remake the politics of the entire Middle East on terms favorable to Washington; skeptics will warn that he could be initiating an epic quagmire that will destroy his presidency and commit the U.S. to a messy, even ruinous colonial mission...