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Stories from 2002-08-13

'Dirty Bomb' Detainee a 'Small Fish'

Christopher Newton | Associated Press | August 13, 2002

"An American touted by Attorney General John Ashcroft as a significant terrorism figure with plans to detonate a radioactive bomb is probably a 'small fish' with no ties to al-Qaida cell members in the United States, law enforcement officials say." [more]

Bush risks isolating US, cautions Kissinger

Roland Watson | Times of London | August 13, 2002

"The biggest danger, though, lay in allowing other countries to use Americaís intervention to justify their own acts of pre-emptive hostility, he said. ìIt is not in the American national interest to establish pre-emption as a universal principle available to every nation.î Potentially the most ìfateful reactionî, he said, would be if India used the example of US military action in Iraq to attack Pakistan." [more]

Has the War on Terror Changed Attitudes on Torture?

Andrew Chang | ABC News | August 13, 2002

"A Christian Science Monitor/TIPP poll from November 2001 said roughly one-third of Americans would support government-sanctioned torture of terror suspects held in the United States or abroad." [more]

Transcript: Interview with Author of 'Forbidden Truth'

Phil Donahue and Jean Charles Brisard | MSNBC | August 13, 2002

"Jean Charles Brisard makes some disturbing allegations regarding a connection between oil, Saudi Arabia, the Clinton and Bush administrations and al Qaeda." [more]

The Ever-Expanding Target List

By Roy Gutman and John Barry | Newsweek | August 13, 2002

"While still wrangling over how to overthrow Iraqís Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration is already looking for other targets. President Bush has called for the ouster of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. Now some in the administrationóand allies at D.C. think tanksóare eyeing Iran and even Saudi Arabia. As one senior British official put it: 'Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran.' ...'Syria and even Egypt are now under discussion in neoconservative circles, along with North Korea and Burma.' " [more]

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