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...Russia, have signed on, keeping them on board may prove tricky. Once the loya jirga is convened, the real horse trading will begin. Says a senior U.N. official: "This is where we want the U.S.'s new engagement and immense power applied--to lean on the neighbors to pull in the same direction. Any one of them could mess...
...year in uncollected taxes. But tax havens, with their anonymity and lax oversight, aren't just for tax cheats. They're also an ideal financial way station for terrorists, who want to park money out of sight until they need it to pay for training camps or to pull off an attack...
...which carried out an infamous nerve-gas attack in the Tokyo subways in 1995, had tried to work up an anthrax weapon. Aum had plenty of cash, recruited scientists into its ranks and cultivated biological-warfare experts in the former Soviet Union. But in the end, it never could pull off a successful assault using anthrax...
Before U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspectors were forced to pull out of Iraq in December 1998, the world knew what Iraq had. At least four tons of VX gas--a sulfurous compound that is among the most toxic chemical agents--were unaccounted for, as well as an estimated several hundred metric tons of the raw materials required to make sarin and mustard gas. After years of denying that it even had a biological-weapons program, Iraq admitted in 1995 that it had produced 8,500 liters of concentrated anthrax and 19,000 liters of undiluted botulinum toxin. UNSCOM destroyed...
...felt my earliest memories pop up--like making bouquets with her and my sister from flowers we'd pull off bushes on the way to church to leave on the marble communion rail. When my mother died, her coffin was in that chapel. In 1996 the Redemptorist Fathers were desanctifying and selling the building, and I was able to buy it and preserve it--and I also bought our old house on St. Charles Avenue. Whatever people may say, I do believe you can buy back your past...