Word: binning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...line position unimpeachable. But partly at the prodding of nervous Arab allies, the U.S. has begun to look for ways to nudge the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Last week the State Department latched onto a tentative offer made by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud for the Arabs to grant Israel a full peace if the Israelis withdraw from all territory seized in the 1967 war. An Arab diplomat says the initiative "puts Sharon in a corner...[and] it signals to the U.S. government, 'If you get engaged, there are important...
...decades, we have responded to threats only after paying a price in American blood. The Clinton years typify this approach. We knew about Osama bin Laden long before he blew up our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. But we did nothing to incapacitate him; and Clinton’s “response” to the embassy attacks—lobbing a few missiles at Osama’s empty tents and then forgetting about him—could hardly have been less effective...
...happened before. In the past, he said, he has been identified as Larry Flynt’s attorney in cases where he was not, in fact, representing the Hustler magazine publisher. And after Sept. 11, he said, reporters called eagerly wanting to know whether he would be defending Osama bin Laden if a suit were ever filed against bin Laden. But Dershowitz said he had nothing of the sort in mind...
...should not try to fight those easy to blame,” he said, emphasizing that the terrorist network should be the target rather than Osama bin Laden, “who is hiding in some cave...
...waiting months for the CIA to talk to him. The former deputy Interior Minister of the Taliban says he has a lot of information to give up, perhaps even some that will lead to Mullah Omar, the fugitive leader of Afghanistan's fallen regime and chief ally of Osama bin Laden. But, until TIME alerted U.S. military officials in Kabul in late January of his willingness to talk, no American officials had debriefed Khaksar. Two weeks after, no senior U.S. intelligence official had spoken...