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...dominoes begin to tumble, Kirch may have to give up significant parts of the conglomerate he built from scratch over more than four decades. And, should the controversy taint friends who helped him along the way, he may not be the only high-profile casualty. One of his staunchest backers is Edmund Stoiber, premier of Bavaria and the opposition candidate set to challenge Gerhard Schr?der for the German chancellorship in September...
Similarly, many scholars have suggested that one of the United States’ staunchest regional Muslim allies, Saudi Arabia, may also be heading towards an Islamic revolution à la Iran in 1979, stemming from the steady decline of support for the more cooperative government from the relatively conservative population...
Apparently it can?t be said enough. Again last Friday, European leaders reaffirmed their "staunchest support" for the U.S. military actions in Afghanistan and promised to redouble their efforts across the board to "combat terrorism in every form, throughout the world." Earlier in the week, with the American bombing campaign against the Taliban in full flourish, it looked as if such wholehearted support might be hard to pin down even in words...
Toward that end, the U.S. got a big boost last week from one of its staunchest allies. While the U.S. had presented its case against bin Laden to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization privately--asserting that secrecy is needed to protect sources--British Prime Minister Tony Blair last Thursday laid out much of that evidence for the world to see in a speech that was accompanied by a 4,500-word precis. (Though the U.S. didn't orchestrate the release of the information, which included some intelligence collected not by the CIA but by British spies, it was vetted...
...Columnists and pundits alike declare that clashing values and narratives are at the root of this conflict. President Bushs first address to the nation stated that it was because America is the brightest beacon for freedom and staunchest advocate for individual liberties that it was attacked. But if it is values and narratives that clash, the eight students profess that they are not Judeo-Christian values clashing with Islamic ones...