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...worst case, none in the group is ruling out a serious rupture: a devastating terrorist attack, the bursting of the bubble-like housing-price increases in some parts of the U.S. and Europe, a change of policy by central banks in Asia to limit their dollar purchases. Any of those could unnerve financial markets and trigger a bigger worldwide reaction, they agreed. Sachs said it would take just two or three such events to come together, "and things get a lot worse. That's not a high probability, but it can't be written...
...President Chirac - a European leader he plainly detests, and who has not given an inch in his opposition to U.S. policy in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. France won't even consent to U.S. pressure to make the relatively meaningless gesture of putting Hezbollah on a terrorist list...
...George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other top officials last week ticked off a list of grievances against the Baathist regime of President Bashar Assad, from Syria's destabilizing presence in Lebanon to its alleged support of insurgents in Iraq to its funding and protection of terrorist groups like Hizballah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Bush said Syria "is out of step" with U.S. policy in the region, while members of Congress called for the U.S. to punish the Assad government for its litany of misdeeds. The strategy isn't hard to read. As Washington continues its push...
...allegedly supporting the insurgency from Syria that the U.S. wanted the regime to round up. A senior U.S. official tells TIME that the U.S. has pressed Syria to arrest Sulayman Khalid Darwish, a Syrian who Washington charges is not only the chief banker to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist mastermind in Iraq, but also one of his top logistical agents and recruiters. The official says Darwish sends money "across the Syrian border in vehicles driven by couriers carrying bags of cash" to be delivered to al-Zarqawi's personal aides. Assad's response to U.S. demands, says an authoritative...
...Although the Iraqis faced terrorist threats when voting, the election seems to have been a success. But that is not enough. And the government's future remains uncertain so long as violence continues. Deepak Kumar Vidhyarthi Muzaffar Nagar, India...