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...pact with the Iraqi regime. Since then, Powell said, the two sides have met at least eight times "at very senior levels." He said that according to a "foreign security service," bin Laden himself met with the director of the Iraqi intelligence service. Powell further claimed that an Iraqi defector told U.S. officials that Saddam sent agents to Afghanistan in the mid-1990s to train al-Qaeda terrorists in document forgery. Powell quoted a detained al-Qaeda operative as saying that Iraq in 2000 offered to give two al-Qaeda associates chemical- or biological-weapons training, though...
...Joachim Maitre, dean of the college ofcommunications at B.U., thinks Silber is too goodfor the job of Democratic chair. Instead, Silberdeserves to be Harvard's next president, saysMaitre, an East German defector lured to B.U. bySilber...
...there remains the very real possibility that a forced defector is not equivalent to, but actively worse than, none at all. In the unlikely event that one does squeal, who’s to say that an abducted weapons scientist won’t feed us incomplete information and red herrings? Since defectors are normally so helpful to intelligence—when they are willing, that is—it is not difficult to imagine our attention focusing on information from forced defectors, with a dangerous drop-off in more haphazard, but less absurd, traditional random-check weapons inspections...
...about his plans, and he's got some limbering up to do within his party before he can think of a run. KMT Chair-man Lien Chan stood for election in 2000 and did badly, scoring 23% of the vote, but he might run again. KMT defector James Soong also has presidential ambitions, and he nearly beat Chen in 2000 as a third-party candidate. If Soong runs, Ma's support would be split. "If there are two sets of can-didates," Ma tells TIME, "we will only repeat the defeat of two years ago." Is that the sound...
TAJI Site of Iraq's long-range-missile program. It was nearly flattened by bombing. Inspectors then destroyed prohibited missiles and related equipment. Much of Taji has been rebuilt, and in March an Iraqi defector reported that mustard gas was being produced here...