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...each. The chapters jump freely along any number of tangents to the events of Sept. 11, 2001‚ from sharp political observations to moments of simple human loss. The film appears in American theaters at last, following a lengthy struggle to find a distributor here after being branded un-American. Though it was conceived of and assembled by a French television producer, September 11 has an international spirit: each renowned director hails from a different country. America is represented by Sean Penn, while Ken Loach, the acclaimed observer of social ills, comes out for Britain; Mira Nair...
President Bush this week told the UN General Assembly that he went to war in Iraq to defend the credibility of the international body. Saddam's weapons of mass destruction represented an intolerable threat to international security, Bush said, and if the UN was derelict in its duty to confront that threat, the U.S. could afford no such luxury. But the Bush administration's current efforts on the sidelines at the UN to persuade reluctant nations to send troops to relieve the burden carried by U.S. forces in Iraq has not been helped by the absence of evidence to support...
...some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." Nor to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's claim, on March 30 that "We know where the WMDs are; they're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad." Nor, for that matter, to Secretary of State Colin Powell's insistence, at the UN Security Council, that "a missile brigade outside Baghdad was dispersing rocket launchers and warheads containing biological warfare agent to various locations, distributing them to various locations in western Iraq. Most of the launchers and warheads had been hidden in large groves of palm trees and were to be moved every...
...India, Pakistan and Turkey may have previously cited absence of a UN mandate as a reason to keep their troops at home, but their calculations were primarily domestic. Such sweeteners as this week's $8 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. Treasury to Turkey may help persuade Ankara to send some 10,000 troops - to the alarm of the Kurdish parties on the Iraqi Governing Council - and South Korea may be persuadable to add to its current deployment of 700 non-combatant troops, if the price is right. Prospects of getting significant forces from Pakistan and India appear more...
...Security Council resolution it seeks authorizing an international force. That's because the invasion is a fait accompli, and the French have nothing to gain, this time, by using the veto. The U.S. is now in the supplicant role, and even armed with a new UN resolution, Washington will struggle to persuade reluctant nations to send troops and money to ease the burden of occupation on a fiscally and militarily stretched America...