The decision by the jury in the six-week trial of Zacarias Moussaoui – portrayed by the prosecution as the "Twentieth Hijacker" – not to invoke the death penalty is a blow for the U.S. Justice Department and shows that the Virginia jury was not persuaded by...
"We must perhaps reluctantly accept that we have to help this region become a normal region, the way we helped Europe and Asia in another era. Now it's this area from Pakistan to Morocco that we should focus on. … The world has gotten smaller and is getting...
U.S. President George W. Bush's "global war on terror" has produced the unintended consequence of bringing the United States ever closer to some of the world's most repressive regimes. Egypt provides a classic example. Last week, over the objections of the...
TEHRAN - With Russia and China signaling opposition, the draft resolution circulated in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) by Britain, France, and Germany, asking Iran to halt uranium enrichment, is unlikely to enjoy smooth passage. The resolution demands that...
There's a lot of talk these days about splitting Iraq into three parts. It's coming from almost every direction. Democratic Sen. Joe Biden, with an eye on his run on the White House, wrote in the New York Times that the U.S. government should create a new Iraq along...
Intelligence services across the world are busy analyzing the latest speeches of Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Ayman al-Zawahri, the three leaders of the jihadist movement, released almost simultaneously at the end of April. Their hope and objective is to...
Death in Iraq. It is relentless and incessant. Know what it is like when scores of your fellow citizens are being killed every single day while the world proceeds unheedingly on? As a journalist, I've had but a taste of that poison during my eight months in Iraq. Try...
With Congress on the verge of approving yet another record Pentagon budget, a task force of nearly two dozen progressive policy analysts is calling for major changes in the way the United States allocates money for its common defense. Noting that Washington currently...
Supporters of the Bush administration's approach to what is sometimes grandly (or grandiosely) called the Global War on Terror (GWOT), if accounts of some intra-administration discussions are accurate, have sometimes been fond of asserting that the world changed on...
After those weapons of mass destruction never appeared and Saddam's al-Qaeda connection proved but a figment of the overly vivid neocon (and vice-presidential) imagination, the Bush administration wheeled out the shiniest of American exports, democracy. It had worked...
