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...climate continues to warm and catastrophic weather events increase, insurers will suffer or gain on the basis of their environmental-risk projections. If they get it wrong--as when many U.S. insurers were sideswiped by large-scale asbestos-pollution claims--or if they are blindsided by the kinds of terrorist attacks that simultaneously generate claims for lives and business lost and damage to real estate and infrastructure, they could find themselves insolvent...
...Profiling the Terrorists The bios of the 14 terrorists being sent to Gitmo read like a collection of terrorist job applications
When Congress adopted legislation last week to establish military commissions to try terrorist suspects, it also gave approval to that program and then some. By allowing coerced testimony to be entered as evidence in trials, Congress potentially legitimized torture as a means of obtaining information. It left the President in charge of filling in the details of what the allowable methods should be. The clearest limit to what might be done was actually not so clear. The new methods could not constitute "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions. But after all the huffing and puffing from Republican Senators John McCain...
...impossible anyway. Goss's suspension order left officers in the agency's directorate of operations, says the source, repeatedly asking the question, What are we going to do with these guys if we capture them? So far in 2006, as government sources and public reports indicate, few if any terrorist suspects have been captured by the CIA. But at least four--including bombmaker Abu Khabab al- Masri, on the FBI's most-wanted list--have been killed, in most cases by remotely fired missiles from Predator drones...
JOHN NEGROPONTE, director of national intelligence, responding to critics who cited a leaked National Intelligence Estimate as proof that the Iraq war has worsened the terrorist threat and criticized the Bush Administration for not releasing it. The NIE--portions of which were declassified last week--calls the war a jihadist "cause...