Who carried out the London massacre, we do not know. But, as to why they did it, we are already quarreling. President Bush says that the terrorists are attacking our civilization. At Fort Bragg, N.C., he explained again why we are fighting in Iraq, two years after we...
A recent appeals court decision to acquit 12 soldiers convicted last year of a notorious 1984 massacre in Jakarta, Indonesia, could complicate efforts by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to normalize military ties with the Southeast Asian nation....
When journalist Aaron Glantz drove into Iraq from Jordan in a battered orange and white checkered taxi on April 29, 2003, he was surprised to find most of the civilian neighborhoods in Baghdad relatively unscathed by the U.S.-led bombing campaign. "It occurred to me...
Long columns of trucks wait at the Jordanian border to carry their loads of supplies into war-torn Iraq. When Iraqi drivers wish to enter Jordan, they now wait up to 18 days to be allowed in. The al-Karama border is a land of waiting, but not just for the truck...
KARACHI - Alarm and dismay have been the general reaction in Pakistan to news of a framework agreement on defense cooperation signed between India, its long-standing rival in South Asia and the United States – which, only a year ago, accorded this country the...
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An unsolicited bid by the Chinese National Offshore Oil Co. (CNOOC) to buy Unocal, a major U.S. oil company, has put Washington's free-market rhetoric to the test, with disappointing results, some analysts say. The global economic rules set by the victors of World War...
Many people will remember Janice Karpinsky, the U.S. Army Reserve brigadier general who was reprimanded and demoted for failing to stop the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. But few will remember Brig. Gen. Rick Baccus, who was sacked in October 2002 as...
It's time the U.S. military stopped shooting journalists. In the last three weeks, American soldiers have killed at least four journalists in Iraq – each while the reporter was driving his car. Two of the cases are especially telling. There is the case of Yasser...
After White House Deputy Secretary Karl Rove's lawyer confirmed that Rove spoke to at least one reporter about CIA operative Valerie Plame, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has called for a Congressional...
