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...little deeper thinking would show that unrestricted consumerism and sustainable development cannot go hand in hand. Mukut Behari Lal New Delhi Iran and the Bomb Charles Krauthammer took a clear look at the mind of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [April 3], who has stated that Israel should be wiped off the map. Was that declaration empty rhetoric or a sincere vow? For the sake of the world, I pray that Ahmadinejad's words are just words. Leo Khang Meng Kuala Lumpur The human race has lost all reason if we think any nation can be trusted with nuclear weapons...
...make a bomb, it would have ready ways to threaten to use it. In 2004 Iran unveiled the Shahab-3 missile, with a range long enough to reach Israel and southern Europe. At the military parade in which it was first shown, one of the missiles carried the scrawl WIPE ISRAEL...
...from exile in Tunis in 1994 by siphoning off aid, creating monopolies, grabbing property, and running protection rackets. Hamas militants, by contrast, have a reputation for discipline and honesty and have vowed to hunt down corrupt Fatah officials. Nor does it help that in 1996, as Arafat tried to wipe out opposition to him, dozens of Islamic militants were jailed, tortured and murdered by his supporters. "Fatah guys were worse than the Israelis," recalled a member of a third militant group, Islamic Jihad. "The Israelis would stop beating us to let us pray. Fatah never stopped...
...TIME: You want it both ways: Iran's President says "We want to wipe Israel off the map." Then you want the West to trust you not to build a nuclear bomb...
...experts differ on how high oil prices would have to go to wipe out the full value of the credit, but most agree that if oil were to remain at recent peak levels, or climb even higher, few synfuel operators could claim the full credit. Citing that uncertainty, the Marriott Corp., which has invested in four synfuel plants, temporarily suspended production in January. Before the shutdown, Marriott had racked up $370 million in synfuel profits...