The Afghan Hero Who Died in Guantánamo

On February 5, the New York Times published a front-page story by Carlotta Gall and myself, Time Runs Out for an Afghan Held by the U.S., about Abdul Razzaq Hekmati, a 68-year old Afghan detainee who died in Guantánamo on December 30, 2007, in which we...

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In Baquba, Happiness Is a Memory

BAQUBA - After losing sight of what they knew to be normal life, residents across Baquba seem to have fallen into a depression. Close to the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, March 19, Iraqis today say they feel humiliated in their own country....

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Operation Merlin II

Well, here we go again. "Information" about Iran's alleged nuke weaponization program, turned over to the Secretariat of the International Atomic Energy Agency late last year, was presented last week to the IAEA Board of Governors by IAEA's Deputy...

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Cut ‘Sovereign’ Israel Loose

Sometimes President Bush sounds like an idiot. The most recent example is his statement that he still believes the Palestinians and Israelis can reach a peace agreement before the end of his term. This comes on the heels of an Israeli attack against Gaza that killed...

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Friday: 27 Iraqis Killed, 33 Wounded

Updated at 5:20 p.m. EST, Mar. 7, 2008Today, Mosul was the scene of multiple bombings just as Baghdad was recovering from yesterday's major bombing in Karrada. Overall, at least 27 Iraqis were killed and 33 more were wounded across the country. No Coalition deaths...

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Foreign Policy Increasingly Flows Through Pentagon

US foreign policy is becoming increasingly dominated by the Pentagon rather than the State Department, and Congress is doing virtually nothing about it, according to a new report released here Thursday by several human rights organizations. That domination is being...

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Iraqi Women More Oppressed Than Ever

Iraq, where women once had more rights and freedom than most others in the Arab world, has turned deadly for women who dream of education and a professional career. Former dictator Saddam Hussein maintained a relatively secular society, where it was common for women...

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Fidel Castro, the First Superdelegate

As the Obama-Clinton primary tussle threatens to go right through, perhaps, November 2010, the political news is everywhere: The superdelegates are "feeling the pressure"; those 795 nabobs of the Democratic Party, once meant in part as a brake against a popular...

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Confessions of an Obama Cultist

Dear fellow Obama-maniacs, Okay, I'm coming out of the closet, and admitting I'm one of you. There, I can say it, at last, out loud and proud: I'm a conservative-paleo-libertarian with a man-crush on Obama. Whew! What a relief! Now that I've got that off my chest, I...

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