LONDON - Evidence offered by a top CIA man could confirm the testimony given by Saddam Hussein at the opening of his trial in Baghdad Thursday that he knew of the Halabja massacre only from the newspapers. Thousands were reported killed in the gassing of Iraqi Kurds...
You remember how King Herod of Judea dealt with a suspected threat to his rule, don’t you? According to Matthew, three Magi – Persian priests – showed up in Jerusalem, and told Herod they had seen a "sign in the heavens" signifying the birth in...
The cliché about bad news – "it never rains but it pours" – was in full view the week of June 20. And the forecast is for more of the same for the foreseeable future. The proverbial torrents in question were the documents and statistics made public by the...
There is certainly some justification for being less than completely satisfied, as Elaine Cassel certainly is, with the Supreme Court's decisions this week on people detained without trial or access to friends, family or lawyers by the Bush administration, notably...
Washington's Foreign Policy I just want to express my profound gratitude for Antiwar.com. While I don't agree with everything everybody says. I agree strongly that we had no business sending troops to Iraq and that this administration lied about WMDs. I am a patriotic...
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." – Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) Boris Tadic won the second round of the Serbian presidential elections Sunday, beating Radical rival Tomislav Nikolic by 8...
Growing international demands to suspend the use of cluster munitions, which scatter hundreds of small "bomblets" over a wide area and are blamed for thousands of civilian deaths around the world, appear to be falling on deaf ears among the governments that stockpile...
Page one Incompetence, Corruption and Cover-ups: The Kevin Taskasen Affair CD: In your October 25 2002 interview with 60 Minutes, "Lost in Translation," you charged the FBI with incompetence and greed – and also of allowing infiltration by foreign intelligence...
Page one and page two But How Could She Have Been Hired? CD: Why was she allowed to stay, and keep her security clearance? Were they trying to protect someone higher up? SE: I don't know. Is it possible? Yes. But I just don't know. But at the unclassified meeting...
