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...report on Guantánamo Bay prompted readers to voice their concerns about the dubious nature of prison-based intelligence and the damage the prison does to the U.S.'s image abroad The reports about the treatment of suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay are deeply disturbing [July 10]. The practice of restraining a person in a padded chair in order to force-feed him via a nasogastric tube is revolting. As a doctor, I am shocked that our government would abuse someone in such a way; as a Muslim, I am frightened that presumed religious fundamentalists have been...
...Hizballah's influence in Lebanese affairs is considerably amplified by the fact that as even as a relatively small armed force, it is more than a match for the national army. Having been designated a terrorist organization by Israel and the U.S., its leaders will understandably fear pursuit and arrest if it is disarmed. And Hizballah's capacity to resist resides not only in its military capabilities, but in the people-power potential of its mass support among Lebanon's Shi'ites. In a show of strength during last year's "Cedar Revolution" protests, Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah brought hundreds...
...TIME's questions were sent to al-Douri in May through intermediaries, and it's not exactly clear when his written answers, delivered in Arabic and authenticated by trusted sources, were composed - the fact that they refer in the present tense to the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi suggest they were written before Zarqawi was killed in June. Al-Douri praises the Qaeda man's "courage, the strength of his faith, and the sacrifices of his fighters," but rebukes Zarqawi's advocacy of mass sectarian killing of innocents...
...prepared to consider serious negotiations but they had no viable partners on the other side; there were times when the Arab side seemed willing to consider a grand bargain (notably the peace effort early in 2002 initiated by Saudi Arabia and endorsed by the entire Arab League) but a terrorist outrage dynamited that effort as well...
...called Road Map to Peace proposed by the U.S. is a road map to an unknown destination, which intensifies the suspicion of those who are supposed to travel on it and makes each side reluctant to fulfill even its basic initial requirements: the Palestinians to dismantle the terrorist networks; the Israelis to stop construction of the settlements altogether. It follows from the foregoing that only an external intervention that is decisive and purposeful in its character can achieve a breakthrough to peace. That intervention can only come from the U.S. It has the power and some residual trust...