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...there have been some mixed messages coming out of Rome. Just last week, the theologian Georges Cardinal Cottier contradicted longstanding Church teachings that ban condom use, saying they could be "legitimate" to fight aids. The Vatican also seems to have been caught off guard by Spain's move to legalize gay marriage, which the church vehemently opposes. While the Pope recuperates, many of his duties fall to some of his most trusted advisers. Secretary of State Angelo Cardinal Sodano, 77, is the man with the most administrative muscle. A veteran diplomat, Sodano is like a papal Prime Minister, responsible...
...office, they had no idea of his alleged link to Madrid until last week when the Spanish warrant arrived. Was that because the Spanish didn't yet suspect him or because they didn't know he'd been in Belgian custody? Spanish Interior Ministry officials aren't saying. Spain has rounded up a considerable number of suspects in its March 11 investigation, but testimony before parliament last year revealed the need for better coordination. And Spanish police made a few arrests of their own last week, too, detaining four people with alleged links to March 11. - By Leo Cendrowicz...
...done business with in the 1980s. Among the shadowy middlemen involved over the years were South African Johan Meyer and German-- South African Gerhard Wisser, who allegedly helped set up a processing facility that could be shipped whole to Libya. Khan's crew tapped furnacemakers in Italy, lathemakers in Spain, and Swiss middlemen who helped design parts for construction in Southeast Asia. The network began sending Libya crateloads of equipment, routing the ships through Europe and the Persian Gulf city of Dubai before they reached their destination in Tripoli. It was an audacious enterprise, given that Western spies were...
...instance: (1) Two Porto Rican young men, brothers, whose surname is Figulroa, who won the Sarasate award, that is, the first prize in violin and piano, at the Royal Conservatory of Music, at Madrid, Spain...
...document Zarqawi's organization posted on the Web last April left no doubt. Claiming that the burning and mutilation of four American security contractors in Fallujah was justified under Islamic law, it listed Australians among "enemy" nationals: "Japan by helping Americans they became a warrior state like Britain, Spain, Australia and others and is seeking for its bad fate," the statement said, adding: "Mujahids (holy warriors) have the right to kill their prisoners and behead them, no attention will be brought for who is alleging that prisoners are 'civilians,' there is no such idiom in our jurisdiction...