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...first involves the unfortunate abduction of German citizen Kahlid El-Masri. In December 2003, while traveling in Macedonia, El-Masri was detained by Macedonian police and turned over to the CIA, apparently as a suspected terrorist. He was then spirited away to Kabul, Afghanistan, for five months of what he describes as beatings, drugging and other mistreatment. At some point, his captors apparently discovered that they had the wrong guy, and so in May 2004 they dumped him in the wilds of Albania...
...Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons,” Blix argued that disarmament is easier today, given increased global interdependence and fewer territorial conflicts among nations. “The time is right for disarmament,” Blix said, adding that nuclear weapons are unnecessary in conflicts with terrorists. Using a nuclear weapon against a terrorist is “like trying to shoot mosquitos with cannons,” he said, citing a Swedish proverb. Blix criticized current US policy and said international cooperation is necessary to prevent nuclear proliferation. “I have the feeling they think...
...hard to tell what the Pentagon's objective really is in releasing the transcript of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession. It certainly suggests the Administration is trying to blame KSM for al-Qaeda terrorism, leading us to believe we've caught the master terrorist and that al-Qaeda, and especially the ever-elusive bin Laden, is no longer a threat...
...wider campaign to limit the Guard's business activities abroad. U.S. Treasury official Stuart Levey recently argued that the IRGC's activities have expanded exponentially under the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad, and he claimed it "is used by the regime to provide a 'train and equip program' for terrorist organizations like Hizballah, as well as to pursue other military objectives of the regime." He also noted the Guard is taking over regular government functions such as management of the Tehran airport and building a new Tehran metro. "When corporations do business with IRGC companies," he warned, "they are doing...
...fact is al-Qaeda is too smart to put all of its eggs in one basket. It has not and does not have a field commander, the role KSM has arrogated. It works on the basis of "weak links," mounting terrorist operations by bringing in people on an ad hoc basis, and immediately disbanding the group afterwards...