Stories from 2002-10-14
"Peace groups believe they can still avert a war by convincing politicians that the majority of Americans oppose unilateral action against Iraq. Most polls find that a majority of Americans believe the United Nations should be allowed to try diplomacy first." [more]
Possible Qaeda attacks include "what is believed to be a terrorist bombing Oct. 6 on a French oil tanker near Yemen, the shooting death of a Marine in Kuwait on Oct. 8, the bombing death of an Army Special Forces soldier Oct. 2 in the Philippines and other recent attacks against French and German targets in the Middle East." [more]
"The blast that killed nearly 200 people on the Indonesian resort island of Bali this weekend is a different type of terrorism from what the Bush administration has campaigned against, and will open a new geographic front in that campaign, Western officials said yesterday." [more]
"U.S. President George W. Bush will ask Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for 'maximum restraint' if Israel is attacked by Iraq in the event of an American assault on the Baghdad regime, but he won't ask Sharon for a commitment not to react under any circumstances, Israeli and American sources said yesterday." [more]
"Several foreign diplomats said they suspected it was the work of the Jemaah Islamiah, an Islamic militant network in Southeast Asia that intelligence officials say is linked to al Qaeda." [more]
"Presidential Press Secretary Ari Fleischer was welcomed back to Middlebury College Sunday with an alumni achievement award and standing ovations inside the college chapel, and large and loud protests outside. " [more]
"As the guns of war are heard along the Euphrates, the sound at home will be of little cloven hooves trotting up to the trough. When it comes to oil consumption, any sacrifice, however small, will be too big." [more]
"America must be 'willing and prepared to act decisively to use the force necessary to prevail, plus some,' [Rumsfeld] wrote. In particular, leaders must avoid 'promising not to do things (i.e., not to use ground forces, not to bomb below 20,000 feet, not to risk U.S. lives, not to permit collateral damage, not to bomb during Ramadan, etc.).' " [more]
"In advance of a White House visit, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urged Palestinians today to overthrow their leadership, calling it a 'despotic regime that is leading you from failure to failure.' " [more]
This article analyzes U.S. defenses against biological and chemical warfare, determining that U.S. forces are still not adequately prepared. [more]
"Details have emerged of a brutal massacre over the weekend in the north of Uganda carried out by the rebels' Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)." [more]
"The impasse between the United States and France over military action in Iraq has deepened in recent days after an effort to reach a compromise stalled," while Bush administration officials "said they were trying to foment an uprising in Iraq, a strategy they had dismissed as recently as last spring." [more]
"The Afghan government won a resounding endorsement from international donors today for its budget and development plan to lift Afghanistan out of destitution and work toward self-sufficiency, positioning it well to win badly needed long-term assistance." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more]
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