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...publish "Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America" by David Wise. Kirkus is impressed, giving it a starred review. "A solidly paced, richly detailed account, by the intelligence-community insider Wise, of the FBI desk jockey who sold secrets to the Soviet and Russian governments for two decades - and came close to getting away with it...A first-rate true-crime story that gets inside the shadowy - and astoundingly average - world of spooks, moles...
...Bush wants to distract attention from his domestic problems," she said. "That's a popular method. Even Hitler did that." Daubler-Gmelin says she was misquoted. Rather than blaming the Frau, however, Bush lashed out at German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder in private phone conversations with other world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. "He believes that Schroder created the environment for that kind of comment to take place," says a senior Administration official. Putin's reaction? He told Bush such foolishness would never happen in elections in his country...
...time: late last year. The scene: the Pankisi Valley, a lawless corner of Georgia just over the mountains from Chechnya that is a safe haven for drug dealers, kidnappers, Chechen guerrillas and, if U.S. officials are right, a small number of al-Qaeda operatives. A Russian military jeep drives up a narrow, winding track and is ambushed by bearded gunmen. In the resulting firefight, one of the attackers is killed. Such skirmishes happen almost daily in Chechnya, where Russia is fighting a war against separatist guerrillas. Just last week Chechen rebels shot down a Russian helicopter in neighboring Ingushetia, after...
...random inspection of the flight from Marrakesh, Morocco. French antiterror officials said the find may have thwarted a two-step plot, in which one operative planted the bombing material for an accomplice to outfit with a detonator and explode during a later flight. RUSSIA Bloody Ingush Dozens of Russian servicemen and Chechen separatist rebels died in heavy fighting in Russia's republic of Ingushetia, which borders Chechnya to the west. Rebels shot down a Russian Mi-24 attack helicopter during the battle around the village of Galashki, about 20 km from Chechnya. Russian officials said that a group of about...
...Georgians fear that the object of any Russian military retaliation will be not simply to punish them for harboring Chechen rebels, but also to weaken Shevardnadze, already unpopular at home because he presides over a corrupt regime. Moscow's ideal outcome is Shevardnadze's ouster and replacement by a more pro-Russian leader...