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...Iraq is a strategically important country in the Middle East, a region whose resources the whole world depends on and one that is rife with ruthless dictatorships that spawn much of the world's terrorist activity. So was the war worth it? That depends. Is human freedom worth it? Garry Chapman Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
Many countries would crow about the arrest of their most wanted terrorist, but that hasn't been the case with Vietnam's Nguyen Huu Chanh. The former refugee and onetime leader of the California-based Government of Free Vietnam was reportedly detained in South Korea on April 5. Yet it was nearly a week before the news was made public?and then only by Chanh's U.S. supporters, who accuse Seoul of bowing to pressure from Hanoi to seize a man they say is a prominent pro-democracy activist. Last week, some 200 Vietnamese-Americans marched on the South Korean...
Runners in today’s Boston Marathon—including a group of about 90 Harvard students—will help public health officials test a new way of responding to earthquakes and terrorist attacks. All participants will wear bar-coded bibs, which will allow event organizers to track injuries and hospitalizations, thanks to a grant from the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Aleksei Boiko ’06 will be among the Harvard students running the marathon today. “I’m extremely concerned about injury, as I’m already nursing...
...architects of abusive interrogation undoubtedly feel that it is the best way to defend the U.S. against terrorist attacks, but their policy is short-sighted. It has been widely noted that U.S. interrogation abuses generate rage and a desire for revenge that is a boon to terrorist recruiters. Applying Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s famous metric, the administration may well be generating more terrorists than it is stopping. But there are two other consequences to U.S. interrogation policy that are less frequently noted...
...source of information than anything gained from interrogation. Regardless of the perennial debate about whether torture can secure information of any value, most security and law enforcement officials agree that tips from the public—a neighbor reporting suspicious activity, a young man reporting an approach by a terrorist recruiter—are more often the key to cracking a secretive terrorist conspiracy. By discouraging cooperation from people who don’t want anything to do with such abuse, coercive interrogation may be penny wise but pound foolish...