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...Geneva, easyJet carries 2 million of the 8 million passengers transiting in and out of the airport every year. Marseille Provence anticipates the new terminal will bring in 1 million extra passengers within two years of opening. And if your luggage is lost, there's no one to blame but yourself...
...Bandar's statement was a harsh, if thinly veiled criticism of some of his uncles responsible for security in the Kingdom. Indeed, when he demands, "Enough blaming others when the reason lies within our own ranks!" he is explicitly criticizing a tendency, seen at the highest levels of the Saudi ruling family, to blame terror attacks in the kingdom on alien forces. Prince Nayef, the Interior Minister responsible for fighting terrorism in Saudi Arabia maintained long after 9/11 that the attack was the work of "Zionists," while even Crown Prince Abdullah, the day-to-day ruler of the kingdom...
...Afghanistan and Guantánamo. Such a consistent approach can only be explained by direction from the top, not by anarchy from below. As a psychologist, I can state that some of the methods are well-known psychological procedures of behavior control. The attempt by the Bush Administration to blame individual soldiers for these abuses is ridiculous. Guido F. Gebauer Niedersachsen, Germany...
Bamford implies that Tenet, the ultimate staff guy, is partly to blame for this failure of nerve. When Secretary of State Colin Powell was putting together his now discredited speech to the U.N. last year about Saddam's WMD program, he stood virtually alone against the hard-liners, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy Stephen Hadley, all of whom seemed keen to pump up the Secretary's talking points. Cheney's staff handed Powell a 50-page draft of allegations; the Secretary rejected most of them as unsupportable, with the hard-liners, Rice and even Tenet fighting...
...like Bush very much as a person; he is the most humane President the U.S. has had. He is not, however, a calculating politician. He has been poorly advised by his Vice President, his Secretary of Defense and others in his Cabinet, and the blame rests with them. Bush has a benevolent heart; he wants what is best for Americans. He is a man of faith and goodwill, but he lacks the intellectual capacity to be a President. JUNE GOMEZ Orlando...