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...claims became a booming industry in its own right, and the estimated number of claimants has ballooned past 1.4 million people. Money-hungry lawyers took a connect-the-dots approach: drum up the standard legal precedents and then solicit clients through local ads or unions (which also sponsored mobile X-ray scans for asbestos-related illnesses). None of this required much investment, and the potential rewards were huge...
UNITED STATES Prayer Protest An improvised turban caused a hunger strike at Camp X-Ray, Cuba among suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban captives. Turbans had been banned, lest they conceal weapons. When one man used a bedsheet to cover his head during prayers, guards ordered it removed. In protest nearly two-thirds of the 300 inmates went on a hunger strike. Most relented when camp commander General Mike Lehnert conceded that they would be allowed turbans and that they would be kept informed about their legal status...
...says the U.S. doesn't negotiate with terrorists? Camp X-Ray commander Marine Gen. Michael Lehnert came one step closer to moving all 300 of the Camp X-Ray "battlefield detainees" to suites at the Miami Hilton, reversing previously immovable policy and allowing them to make turbans out of their bedsheets - as long as the sheets were subject to inspection...
...After Robert Byrd broke the ice in a hearing Wednesday by questioning the war's price tag, Majority Leader Tom Daschle told reporters Thursday that the U.S. must add two more prisoners to its X-Ray pen - Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden - "or we will have failed." Trent Lott, through his spokesman, was very upset; Bush, through his, played it cooler, with Ari Fleischer drily informing reporters Thursday that "individuals are free to focus on any one person if they think that's the best way to conduct foreign policy. That's a different approach than the president...
...does it matter if a worthy goal - weaning the U.S. from foreign-policy complications by meeting more of its energy needs at home - is just what the terrorists wanted? Is it OK to add a little more political correctness to U.S. treatment of the alleged terrorists at X-Ray, if only to keep them under control and the international community off the Pentagon's back while it ponders what to do with its captives? And could the war on terror - lately expanded with the departure of U.S. military trainers to Yemen - benefit from a little partisan nay-saying...