BAGHDAD - Saboteurs attacked an oil pipeline in southern Iraq over the weekend, sending up pillars of smoke and bringing a slowdown in supply. It was by no means an isolated incident. Another pipeline 150km (93 mi.) north of the southern port of Basra was attacked....
The conviction of British mercenary Simon Mann by a Zimbabwean court could not have come at a worse time for Tim Spicer, Mann's fellow former Scots Guards officer and erstwhile colleague in security firm Sandline International. Mann's alleged coup plot in Equatorial...
Slobodan Milosevic's defense at the Hague Inquisition began this week, after several delays. Reporters in The Hague, who are without exception partial to the Tribunal and scornful of Milosevic, described his opening statement as "defiant" but pointless, as he...
I write to ask that the Judiciary Committee commence an immediate full investigation and examine substantial and credible evidence that Pentagon officials have engaged in criminal wrongdoing in their handling of classified material and have engaged in unauthorized...
At the close of his address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars a week ago, President Bush announced a redeployment of 70,000 U.S. troops and 100,000 family members and civilian employees from overseas bases. Some of the troops may go to East Europe or Central Asia, but,...
CHICAGO - Ibrahim Parlak's customers and friends know him as the gentle, hard-working Kurdish immigrant from Turkey who runs Café Gulistan in the placid lakeside town of Harbert, Michigan. Before he was incarcerated by U.S. authorities and threatened with...
First: The "Who." Initially seven, then 28, were charged or under investigation. Now at least two more may be charged and as many as 53 have been implicated. An additional five have been singled out by name as bearing responsibility. More may eventually be charged or...
DAMAK, NEPAL - Suspecting Maoist infiltration in their ranks, security forces have tightened restrictions and surveillance on the 100,000 Bhutanese refugees in Nepal, making it difficult for them to find work, even as geopolitical intrigues are impeding their return...
The burgeoning scandal over claims that a Pentagon official passed highly classified secrets to a Zionist lobby group appears to be part of a much broader set of FBI and Pentagon investigations of close collaboration between prominent U.S. neoconservatives and Israel...
"A lobby is like a night flower," wrote Steven Rosen, a top official of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). "It thrives in the dark and dies in the sun." With the light of day shining brightly on AIPAC's spy mission for Israel in the Pentagon, will...
