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...North Korea's "words for words and action for action" proposal. According to this formula, North Korea will resume its freeze on its nuclear weapons program when the U.S. resumes its rewards of energy supplies, lifts the economic embargo, and removes the North from Washington's list of terrorist-sponsoring states. The U.S. has been down that road before with the 1994 Agreed Framework, which it claims North Korea violated. Washington's position is that North Korea must first take concrete steps to halt its nuclear program before it receives any rewards...
...aggressive interrogation of suspected terrorists in our custody has probably led to critical intelligence gains, possibly thwarting other cowardly terrorist attacks on civilians. I am grateful for leaders who are willing to revise the interrogation policy and look at the larger picture. That is the most important task they were appointed to do. Our freedom to criticize the government would be ruthlessly curtailed if the terrorists we are fighting had their way. The very policies that Klein criticizes are preserving his freedom to be critical. Jeff Copes Frisco, North Carolina...
...case of At Risk (Knopf; 367 pages) it really can't be helped. At Risk is a thriller about Liz Carlyle, a plucky young agent in MI5 (Britain's equivalent of the FBI) who spars with a roguish male sidekick while chasing a bomb-toting Islamic terrorist and his "invisible" (blond, British and female) co-conspirator. The book follows the standard spy-novel formula, though the formula works with surprising elegance--perhaps because its author, Stella Rimington, is a former director general of MI5 who spent 30 years foiling the plots of baddies from Russia, the Middle East and Northern...
...Risk is certainly not flawless. Early on, the reader is privy to more details of the terrorist plot than Liz, and things move slowly until she catches up. Liz also has a convenient habit of asking herself bushels of expository questions ("What business could Eastman have been doing with Germans and Arabs and Pakistanis? Who had been killed? And most vitally of all, was there a terror connection?"). But these are quibbles. In a thriller, plot is all and once it gets going, At Risk is never less than compelling. The book was vetted--as was Rimington's first...
...network might have sold nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. The U.S. has submitted questions to Khan asking whether North Korea and Iran sold such equipment to third parties. The ultimate fear: that one of Khan's clients may pass along nuclear technology and expertise to terrorist groups. Although the U.S. does not have concrete evidence that Khan did business with al-Qaeda, there is reason to suspect such a link exists. A few members of Pakistan's military and intelligence establishment, which worked closely with Khan in his role as the government's top nuclear scientist...