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...months had passed since 9/11, and at the highest levels of government, officials were worrying about a second wave of attacks. CIA Director George Tenet was briefing Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in the White House Situation Room on the agency's latest concern: intelligence reports suggesting that Osama bin Laden and his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had met with a radical Pakistani nuclear scientist around a campfire in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Absorbing the possibility that al-Qaeda was trying to acquire a nuclear weapon, Cheney remarked that America had to deal with...
...press that uncovered Abu Ghraib, the massacre at Haditha, the abuses at Guantánamo. I think the press has been very responsible in the past. When I was at ABC, we always checked with the Administration in power when we thought we had something of concern, and there was usually some way to work...
...years ago, Palestinian militants in Gaza began launching crude, homemade Qassam rockets or mortars across the border, initially causing little damage or the Ragolskys much concern - until July 14 of last year. Amir was at home that afternoon when Dana returned from classes. As she stepped inside, a mortar pierced the roof near the front of the house, sending shrapnel and chunks of wall flying. Amir was knocked over but remained conscious. Yossi, a cousin living next door, raced over with his 5-year-old daughter. Pnina, a trained psychological counselor, was driving back from Tel Aviv, where...
President George W. Bush expressed "serious concern" about the deaths and directed that the remains be "treated humanely and with cultural sensitivity" in accordance with Muslim traditions, Press Secretary Tony Snow said. "He wants to make sure that this thing is done right from all points of view...
...more urgent concern is a case on the detainees' legal rights that the Supreme Court is expected to decide by July. That case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, could determine whether prisoners have the right to be charged in U.S. civilian courts. Any decision in favor of the detainees would mean a defeat for the elaborate legal framework the Administration has developed to hold Gitmo detainees and other prisoners without charges--and often without trial--by classifying them as "enemy combatants...