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Updated: 27 weeks 4 days ago Wider Iranian threat is feared - Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times - By Paul Richter, Peter Spiegel - While the White House dwells on Iran's nuclear program, senior U.S. diplomats and military officers fear that an incident on the ground in Iraq is a more likely trigger for a possible confrontation with the Islamic Republic.
In one sign of their concern, U.S. military policymakers are weighing whether to release some of the Iranian personnel they have taken into custody in Iraq. Doing so could reduce the risk that radical Iranian elements might seize U.S...
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Immunity Deals Offered to Blackwater GuardsNew York Times - By David Johnston - tate Department investigators offered Blackwater USA security guards immunity during an inquiry into last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad -- a potentially serious investigative misstep that could complicate efforts to prosecute the company's employees involved in the episode, government officials said Monday.
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Attacking Iran for Israel?Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - To gauge someone's reliability, one depends largely on prior experience. Sadly, Rice's credibility suffers in comparison with that of the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohammed ElBaradei, who insists there is no evidence of an active nuclear weapons program in Iran.
If this sounds familiar, ElBaradei said the same thing about Iraq before it was attacked. But three days before the invasion, American nuclear expert Dick Cheney told NBC's Tim Russert, "I think Mr...
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John Tanner's Erosion Of Voting RightsProgress Report - By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Jeremy Richmond, Ali Frick - John K. Tanner, head of the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, will testify this morning before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about the erosion of civil rights and the politicization of justice that has marked the division during the Bush administration. Tanner, whose testimony was originally blocked by the Justice Department, will enter the hearing room under a cloud of controversy.
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The Wiretap This TimeNew York Times - By Studs Terkel - During my lifetime, there has been a sea change in the way that politically active Americans view their relationship with government.
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U.S. Promises on Darfur Don't Match ActionsWashington Post - By Michael Abramowitz - Yet a year and a half later, the situation on the ground in Darfur is little changed: More than 2 million displaced Darfuris, including hundreds of thousands in camps, have been unable to return to their homes. The perpetrators of the worst atrocities remain unpunished. Despite a renewed U.N. push, the international peacekeeping troops that Bush has long been seeking have yet to materialize.
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Immunity deal hampers Blackwater inquiryAssociated Press - By Lara Jakes Jordan - The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned.
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Judicial Races Now Rife With PoliticsWashington Post - By Robert Barnes - Judicial elections are an almost uniquely American invention, with a patchwork of more than 16 selection systems spread across the country. In the 21 states that hold direct partisan and nonpartisan elections for the high court, some already have evolved from quiet, down-ballot contests to full-blown campaigns with consultants and multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns. An Illinois Supreme Court contest in 2004 cost more than 18 of the 34 U.S...
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Iraq Hampers U.S. Bid to Widen Sunni Police RoleNew York Times - By Michael R. Gordon - The American military's push to organize Sunni Arabs into local neighborhood watch groups has been one of the United States' most important initiatives in Iraq -- so much so that President Bush flew to Anbar Province in September to highlight growing alliances with Sunni tribal leaders.
But now that the Americans are trying to institutionalize the arrangement by training the Sunnis to become police officers, the effort has been hampered by halfhearted support and occasionally outright...
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Venezuela Increasingly A Conduit For CocaineWashington Post - By Juan Forero - Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration's dismal relations with Venezuela's government have made matters worse, anti-drug agencies say, paralyzing counternarcotics cooperation.
Venezuela does not cultivate the leaf from which cocaine is derived...
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