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...Carney is no left-wing bomb thrower; he is a pragmatic moderate. Before the war began, he specialized in studying Saddam's ties to regional terrorist groups. "There were no links to 9/11," he told me. "But there were plenty of other contacts with terror groups. I always thought that was a better argument for the war than weapons of mass destruction." Carney's politics pretty accurately reflect the views of most Iraq combat veterans running as Democrats. They are not so much antiwar as anti-Bush, furious about the lack of preparation for the war, the insufficient troop levels...
...didn't feel sympathy for the Rev. Julie Nicholson when she announced her resignation as parish priest of St. Aidan with St. George in Bristol, England, last week? The Anglican vicar lost her 24-year-old daughter Jenny in last July's London terrorist bombings. In a breathtakingly candid interview with the bbc, Nicholson said she was stepping down because she could not forgive the suicide bomber. "I rage that a human being could choose to take another human's life. I rage that someone should do this in the name of a god," she said. But mixed in with...
...death squads. Shi'ites interpreted Khalilzad's comments as a threat to their influence. "They thought I was trying to give [the ministry] to the Sunnis," Khalilzad says. And justified or not, some Shi'ites say Khalilzad's slapdown contributed to the rage that erupted after the Feb. 22 terrorist bombing of the sacred Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, which left hundreds dead. "I see what happened in the immediate aftermath of Samarra as a strategic warning to Iraqi society and the Iraqi leadership," Khalilzad says. "If they didn't have a feeling that there was a concerted effort...
...Written by Ohio's Mike DeWine, the legislation tries, in effect, to put a fence around a wild horse. It would allow warrantless wiretaps and other electronic surveillance of people linked to groups plotting terrorist acts against the United States, while making a start at restoring legislative control over a White House that claims to be above the law in times of war. And since this is simply an agreement among Senate Republicans-the bill has an uncertain future, at best-there is no guarantee that other actors in Congress won't make the fence higher, or for that matter...
...laws that have been passed by Congress, period. This position scares even some on the right wing of the Republican party, but it is a bigger fight than any one Senator can tackle. Says Mike Dawson, an aide to the bill's author, DeWine, "We're trying to prevent terrorist acts by people that would be covered by this bill...