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Tracey is proud of his family, proud of the little boy who has an American flag sticking out of the roof of his little camouflage tent, who when he sees a gun at the toy store says, "Dad, can I get that weapon?" Even a child knows the drill, knows the words, and tonight in the living room, D'Artagnan sings them...
...host of Palestinian groups met in Cairo for talks on ending attacks against Israel. Yasser Arafat's secular Fatah faction endorsed a proposed truce, but Hamas and Islamic Jihad rejected it. The need for a cease-fire was apparent in Gaza, where a Palestinian teen died in a gun battle after the Israeli army raided the town of Beit Hanoun. Troops also blew up bridges in reply to rocket attacks on the nearby Israeli town of Sderot. In the West Bank, Israel bulldozed more than 60 Palestinian shops near Tulkarem. Israeli officials said the shops had been built without permits...
...week, two North Africans remained in custody under the Terrorism Act, one man was released and four others held on alleged immigration offenses. The operation, linked to the discovery of traces of the deadly poison ricin three weeks ago in a nearby neighborhood, also uncovered a stun gun, a fake firearm, a CS gas canister and a slew of passports, credit cards and identity cards, many believed to be forged...
...practically become a foregone conclusion, but the inspectors’ recent discovery of empty warheads designed for carrying chemical weapons certainly does not constitute a “smoking gun.” The weapons may have been omitted in Iraq’s 12,000-page declaration Dec. 8, but this is not the material breach the United States needs to convince the world that war is justified. If the war is to be fought with an international mandate, the U.S. must not be overly hasty to start...
...there remain many outstanding questions regarding Iraq’s weapons programs. If the U.S. puts its intelligence resources behind inspections, as others on the Security Council are urging, the U.N. may be successful in disarming Iraq peacefully. If a peaceful solution is not possible, then finding a smoking gun during an inspection is still the only way the U.S. can legitimize its calls for war to the rest of the world. We understand the CIA’s reluctance to release sensitive information that could endanger informants in Iraq, but the U.S. must give inspections a real opportunity...