KATHMANDU – Many jobless Nepalis are still heading to Iraq to look for jobs, despite the recent spate of kidnappings and beheadings and a ban imposed by the government after the U.S. invasion of Baghdad last year. "We have been told that they pay us three times more in Iraq than they pay in, say, …
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Corruption in the Corps?Couldn’t agree more. Watching general officers on C-Span gazing at Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and even the Controller of the DOD(!) the way Nancy used to gaze at Ronald Reagan is a truly stomach-churning experience.I was a lawyer for one of the largest contractors in Vietnam and you could see the process beginning then. …
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UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations, which is supposed to prepare the groundwork for nationwide elections in Iraq next January, is unlikely to send an electoral team to supervise the polls unless its workers are heavily protected in the violence-prone country, according to a report released Monday. But the absence of UN monitors could jeopardize …
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One of the greatest coups in Washington’s nearly three-year war against al-Qaeda has suddenly turned sour with reports the White House prematurely exposed the identity of a key source whose contacts and communication with the terrorist group’s operational masterminds had yet to be fully exploited. The source, 25-year-old computer wizard Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, had …
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IMPHAL (Manipur) – As turmoil rages in India’s troubled northeastern state of Manipur, with most government offices shutting down Monday, and employees boycotting work to support a public rebellion against a federal law giving the army unlimited powers, experts fear the unrest could fuel insurgency in the region. Manipur’s additional police chief C. Peter admits …
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International media watchdogs say Iraq’s U.S.-installed interim government is seriously undermining the prospects for press freedom in the war-torn country. Citing both the shutdown of al-Jazeera‘s Baghdad office last weekend and a series of recent policies enacted by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, critics fear that Iraq’s media environment is in danger of becoming as stifling …
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Last week’s announcement that the terrorist threat warning level has been raised in parts of New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., has led to dramatic and unprecedented restrictions on the movements of citizens. Americans wishing to visit the U.S. Capitol must, for example, pass through several checkpoints and submit to police inspection of their …
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The Bush administration could be forced to slow plans to resume relations with the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) after a Jakarta appeals court Saturday dismissed all pending cases against Indonesians indicted for crimes against humanity committed in East Timor five years ago. The judicial action is also likely to fuel demands by human rights groups …
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"Pre-election period … pre-election plot … pre-election threats": these rolled off National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s lips no less than seven times Sunday on CNN’s Late Edition as she discussed the likely timing of a terrorist attack. She stayed on message. Dr. Rice said the government had actually "picked up discussion" relating to "trying to …
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