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'All my dreams have been disturbed' *
Arrested on suspicion of posing a security threat, Muhammed Naeem says he is an unfortunate victim of circumstance [More]

9/11 2003: The world remembers *
In France, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks was marked with more attacks, "a million poetic attacks," that is. A group of "thinkers, artists, writers of all beliefs and persuasions" called upon the people of France to "get yourself a book, a book that you like and that changed your view of the world. Write a dedication there, a few words, and release it!" [More]

9/11 and Canada: Still scared, still vulnerable *
Feeling safe yet? No? No wonder: SARS, blackouts, and bad water are reminders that a good security policy anticipates multiple threats, says law professor KENT ROACH [More]

9/11 report slams CIA, FBI *
Despite spending billions of dollars, U.S. intelligence agencies remain so crippled by bureaucracy and poor communications that they lost their best chance of stopping the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks because the CIA failed to tell the FBI that two men under observation were suspected terrorists. [More]

9/11 transcripts released *
After a plane struck the first of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, callers from the top floors of the neighbouring tower were told by Port Authority police to remain where they were. [More]

9/11: America remembers terror *
The name of every person to die at the World Trade Center two years ago was read aloud at the site Thursday morning, a ceremony that took several hours. It was one of a flurry of commemorations of the thousands who were killed in the worst terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. [More]

A cynic lands a miracle *
A surprise $85,000 donation from a famous director is earmarked for a Cambodian museum [More]

A Long Short War, Why Are We at War? & Dreaming War -- Three intellectuals in search of an empire *** 1/2
Golden-age fantasists like to say rhetorical standards have lately declined, along with everything else, from baseball to the weather; and no doubt this is true if, for instance, one compares a George W. Bush press conference with the Lincoln-Douglas debates. [More]

A new kind of 'world power' *
As Canadians prepare to patrol Kabul, GREG FOSTER, a U.S. military academic, says we can find an international role by doing a job the U.S. cannot: nation-building [More]

A Soldier's Diary: 'This may be my last entry . . .' *
It is tiny. The size of a woman's hand. It had to be small, to carry into the trenches. Ragged soldiers were already loaded down with gear... [More]

A story of intrigue from A to Z *
Two Montreal men have been at the centre of allegations of arms deals, an African coup plot and business double-crosses. Now, one of them is on the lam from U.S. authorities. COLIN FREEZE reports [More]

A story to 'make your blood run cold' *
Pete Flett's last flight began from the tiny French aerodrome at Luxeuil-les-Bain in the early afternoon of April 14, 1917. [More]

ABC lands first interview with hoax patsy, Jessica Lynch *
ABC News' Diane Sawyer was chosen Monday for the first television news interview with alleged prisoner of war Jessica Lynch. [More]

Alan Bullock, 89 *
Alan Bullock, distinguished historian and author of an important postwar biography of Adolf Hitler, died Monday. He was 89. [More]

All hail Britain's inquiring minds *
One of the headlines in the British press about the Hutton Inquiry was, "A very British sort of inquiry." Isn't it, though, I said approvingly, and was surprised to find the author thought this was a bad thing. He felt the inquiry was scattered in its intent. He sound miffed, like an English schoolmaster... [More]

All the news that's fudged to print *
The New York Times sacrificed its top editor for the wrong reasons, says Harper's publisher JOHN MacARTHUR. If you think Jayson Blair was loose with the facts, look at how the Times covered Iraq [More]

Analysis: What Bush Really Wants *
Unlike the Turkish emperors of the past, George W. Bush has no territorial ambitions in the Middle East, writes PAUL KORING . But he certainly wants something -- a new world order -- and is royally determined to get it. [More]

And justice for all *
In 2001, six conflicted young men in New York State are lured to Osama bin Laden's training camp in Afghanistan. They hate it, and come home as soon as they can. A year later -- on what their community now calls 9/13 -- all hell breaks loose. As the second anniversary of Sept. 11 nears, IAN BROWN visits Lackawanna, the home of a 'terrorist cell' that now seems less a menace than a test of what freedom is in today's America [More]

Anti-war protesters rally in U.S. *
Hundreds of anti-war protesters rallied Saturday in the capital, urging an end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq and demanding that President George W. Bush bring home American troops. [More]

Arabian Nights 1914: A Scheherazade in the Great War *
Eric Koch has been explaining German culture to North Americans for years. The most recent four of his 14 books have been historical fictions with a German setting; Arabian Nights 1914 is the most outrageous. [More]

Art in the war zone *
Many, including art critic Robert Hughes, argue that modern and contemporary art have little of value to say about atrocities, GUY DIXON writes. [More]

Back with a vengeance *
It had been four long years since the Nazis had overrun Europe and driven their fleeing foes into the sea at Dunkirk. Despite the Blitz and constant threat of invasion, the Allies had regrouped and gathered strength, waiting for the day they would be strong enough to go back. The key: make sure Hitler didn't know what was coming. Sixty years later, DOUG SAUNDERS visits Britain's south coast, launch pad for the greatest sneak attack in history. [More]

Bali: Resurrecting paradise *
On the eve of the Bali bombing's first anniversary, JOHN WEICH examines the security and marketing measures being taken to lure visitors back to this idyllic island. [More]

BBC chief resigns over Hutton report *
The head of the British Broadcasting Corp. resigned Thursday after a judicial inquiry harshly criticized the network's journalistic standards. [More]

Beauty aids and playing cards latest tools of terror *
From belt buckles to keys to a deadly deck of cards, the FBI is warning security personnel about dozens of everyday items that can conceal knives or other weapons terrorists could use to hijack an airliner. [More]

Behold the armies of the Lord *
You can no more disengage religion from politics than you can extract beliefs from public life, says theologian DOUGLAS FARROW [More]

Belgium dismisses Bush war-crimes complaints *
Belgium's highest court dismissed war-crimes complaints Wednesday against former U.S. president George Bush, current U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, ruling that it no longer has a legal basis to charge them. [More]

Berlin, Paris are united in rejecting Iraq proposal *
U.S. plan for UN role called insufficient; Pentagon looks to build new Iraqi army [More]

Between the crosses, row on row *
Looking out at bright blue sky and fields of green and gold in the distance, it is difficult to imagine any kind of sadness in such a lovely place. [More]

Blair aide sent warning Iraq dossier weak *
'Document does nothing to demonstrate a threat,' e-mail to PM's inner circle said [More]

Blair carries the day at Kelly inquiry *
Smooth as silk, Prime Minister Tony Blair testified yesterday and tore apart the BBC's allegations about his controversial Iraq dossier, saying that the broadcaster had attacked "the credibility of the country" and that he would have resigned if his office had exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. [More]

Blair denies authorizing Kelly's identification *
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that he did not authorize the identification of a weapons inspector as the source for a British Broadcasting Corp. report questioning the honesty of a government dossier on Iraqi weapons. [More]

Blair gets away with it *
Whether the British government lied to the world in claiming that Saddam Hussein could launch horrible weapons on less than an hour's notice is, Lord Hutton wrote, a subject that does not fall within his terms of reference. [More]

Blair stands firm on Iraq invasion *
British Prime Minister Tony Blair acknowledged yesterday that his leadership is going through a "rough patch" but made no apologies for having backed the war on Iraq and pushed unpopular domestic policies, and vowed to seek a third term in office. [More]

Blair takes the hot seat, denies dossier manipulated *
Prime Minister Tony Blair told an inquiry Thursday that his office did not exaggerate estimates of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and said that he would have had to resign if it had. [More]

Blair wanted dossier public: aide *
Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair's communications director, a key figure in a controversy over the government's case for war in Iraq, said Tuesday that it was Blair who decided to publish a contentious dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. [More]

Blair's in the spotlight as judicial inquiry begins *
There will be little celebration today for Tony Blair as he becomes the longest continuous-serving Labour Party prime minister in history under the shadow of a judicial inquiry that goes to the heart of his style of government. [More]

Blair, the BBC and the devil's dilemma *
'There's no doubt in my mind that I would have aired the report,' says veteran broadcaster MARK STAROWICZ [More]

Blair: Of suicide and spin *
No one does it quite like Tony Blair. No leader currently on the world stage can match the British Prime Minister's ability to shoulder politically risky policies and defend them in person, with consummate debating skill, against a critical public. [More]

Blood loss ended bid to save life of Canadian *
Two Iraqi doctors who raced to help the victims of the suicide-bomb attack in Baghdad wound up desperately trying to save the life of a young Canadian who was their boss and friend. [More]

British Airways considers missile defence *
British Airways is considering fitting its aircraft with anti-missile systems and has begun talks with manufacturers Boeing and Airbus about adapting the technology to commercial planes, the airline said Friday. [More]

British government did not 'sex up' dossier: panel *
Prime Minister Tony Blair's government did not deliberately "sex up" a dossier on Iraqi weapons by including a disputed claim about chemical and biological weapons, Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee reported Thursday. [More]

British government ministers pressure BBC to apologize *
Government ministers stepped up pressure Saturday on the British Broadcasting Corp. to apologize for reporting that officials doctored intelligence information to justify war with Iraq. [More]

British MPs call for broad probe after suicide *
A judge investigating the suicide of a Defence Ministry weapons adviser should also examine the British government's use of intelligence to justify war with Iraq, opposition MPs said Monday. [More]

British spied on UN's Annan, former cabinet member says *
British intelligence agents spied on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the run-up to the Iraq war, a former member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's Cabinet said Thursday. [More]

Briton arraigned in U.S. over missile sting *
A suspected arms dealer who authorities say thought he was selling a shoulder-fired missile to a Muslim terrorist bent on shooting down an airliner was arraigned on U.S. federal charges Wednesday. [More]

Bush adviser apologizes over Iraq claim *
Stephen Hadley, U.S. President George W. Bush's deputy national security adviser, on Tuesday became the second administration official to apologize for allowing a tainted intelligence report on Iraq's nuclear ambitions into Mr. Bush's State of the Union address. [More]

Bush lied to justify Iraq war, Canada right to stay out: poll *
Canadians overwhelmingly believe President George W. Bush lied to justify the Iraq war and their own government was wise to stay out of the conflict, a new poll suggests. [More]

Canada mourns with U.S., PM tells Bush *
Chrétien phones President on anniversary of 9/11 attacks in New York, Washington [More]

Canadian soldier killed in suicide attack *
One Canadian soldier was killed and three others were injured in Kabul Tuesday morning in what appears to be a suicide attack, a Department of National Defence spokesman said early Tuesday. [More]

Canadian soldiers pay tribute to fallen comrade *
Canadian soldiers pay tribute to fallen comrade; British soldier killed in attacks during memorial. [More]

Canadian veterans return to Juno Beach *
It ended where it began on Sunday for Canada's D-Day veterans as they returned to the beach where, 60 years ago, they fought their way ashore amid a hail of Nazi gunfire as the Allies launched their campaign to liberate Europe. [More]

Canadian war hero makes triumphant return to former battleground *
Spitfire Ace goes back to Malta where he is given a hero's welcome. . . [More]

Caribbean school linked to suspect college *
Ties promoted with now-defunct business facility that's part of federal terror probe [More]

China holds the key to unlocking the North Korean crisis *
Last week, when the government of North Korea finally agreed to participate in multilateral talks to resolve the crisis over the country's nuclear-weapons program, the Bush administration was quick to claim victory for its hard-line approach toward the Kim Jong Il regime. [More]

Chrétien pays tribute to D-Day veterans *
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien paid tribute Friday to Canadian soldiers who fought and gave their lives during the D-Day invasion of France as he helped open the first major war memorial in Normandy commemorating their sacrifice. [More]

Chrétien was right: It's time to redefine a 'just war' *
The 1990s was a challenging decade. Our consciences were shocked by atrocities from Rwanda to Bosnia and beyond, and by the price that innocent men, women and children paid because of the world's failure to rise to such challenges. [More]

Christian soldier Bush swears by the Lord *
It was on this day a year ago, Feb. 5, 2003, that Colin Powell came before the United Nations to catalogue Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of horror. [More]

CIA chief defends his ground *
Intelligence analysts never told U.S. President Bush before the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein's rule posed an imminent threat, Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet said Thursday in a heated defence of agency findings central to the decision to go to war. [More]

Court orders extradition of Vancouver man *
Michael Seifert, a former Nazi prison guard who now lives in Vancouver has been ordered extradited to Italy. [More]

D-Day: The Greatest Invasion – A People's History (Keyes review) ****
Of course the American troops were the sine qua non of the Allied victory, and the book doesn't suggest otherwise. But author Dan van der Vat has always been acutely aware of Canada's contribution to the war effort. [More]

Dallaire's Rwandan tale slated for film *
Halifax-based Salter Street Films has secured the rights to retired lieutenant-general Roméo Dallaire's upcoming book on his experience in Rwanda. [More]

Dead arms expert was weapons source: BBC *
The British Broadcasting Corp. said Sunday that David Kelly, a scientist whose apparent suicide intensified a debate over whether the government inflated claims about Iraqi weapons, was its main source for a story at the centre of the dispute. [More]

Diplomats: Mourn, but avoid politicized mourning *
On Jan. 29, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew up Jerusalem's No. 19 bus. Among the many dead was a Canadian, Yechezkel Goldberg, a resident of the Israeli settlement of Betar Illit in the occupied West Bank, where some 200,000 Jewish settlers live in uneasy co-existence with more than two and a half million Palestinians. [More]

DNA match of 9/11 victims limited *
Up to 1,000 of World Trade Center dead may never be identified, pathologist says [More]

Explosion rocks Moscow train station *
39 dead, 150 injured in suspected suicide bombing. [More]

For undistinguished reporting *
Reporter Walter Duranty turned a blind eye to one of the greatest atrocities of the 20th century. For that, his 1932 Pulitzer Prize should be revoked, says Ukrainian-Canadian LUBOMYR LUCIUK. [More]

France finds no evidence of terror threat *
French justice and law enforcement officials on Thursday said they found little evidence that terrorists were planning to use U.S.-bound aircraft to launch attacks against American targets over Christmas, despite warnings from the U.S. government that prompted the cancellation of six flights. [More]

Global doc a misfire in tin-pot 'media war' *
Global is reopening a can of worms tonight when it repeats an already controversial documentary. [More]

Grinding the axe and passing the buck *
In Britain, it's the suicide of a scientist that spawns the blame game; here, it's the Great Blackout. Grinding various ideological axes, the media weigh in. Governments establish inquiries to reassure voters the cock-up will never again occur, at least until the next time. [More]

Ground Zero of the human heart *
The agony of their loss is more muted now, but three widows of 9/11 victims find the pain still ambushes them [More]

Hector Fraser Dougall: Tales of derring-do *
In a senseless war that lasted four years and took millions of lives, it was rare for individuals to stand out amid the carnage. But some managed. [More]

Hijacker ordered crash, FBI says *
U.S. investigators now believe that a hijacker in the cockpit aboard United Airlines Flight 93 instructed terrorist-pilot Ziad Jarrah to crash the jetliner into a Pennsylvania field because of a passenger uprising in the cabin. [More]

Hoax continues: Jessica Lynch receives a hero's welcome *
Former PoW Jessica Lynch returned home to a flag-waving hero's welcome Tuesday, saying "it's great to be home" in her first public words since being rescued. [More]

Honesty killed David Kelly *
The brave people of conscience who reveal government wrongdoing always pay a price, says British MP TAM DALYELL [More]

How to make friends and occupy people *
REVERSALS OF FORTUNE. When Saddam Hussein's sons died this week, many predicted a warming between Iraqis and U.S. soldiers. But as MARK MacKINNON reports from Baghdad, resistance there may need no leadership, if the U.S. can't calm tempers and assure basic needs [More]

Hussein's sons killed in raid: U.S. general *
Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay died in a blaze of gunfire and rockets Tuesday, the U.S. military said, claiming their deaths will blunt Iraqi resistance to the American occupation. [More]

Hutton report had narrow focus *
The inquiry into the death of a British weapons expert had no mandate to look at the Iraq war, or at the intelligence failures that helped set it off, says PAUL KNOX. [More]

I spy blocked vision *
If Bush and Blair want to know why they got faulty intelligence on Iraq, they should look at the politicization of their spy ops, says U.K. security analyst PHILIP DAVIES. [More]

Iraq now: 20 questions *
Is there power? Health care? How many troops remain? How many people died? In Baghdad, Globe correspondent MARK MacKINNON answers some lingering questions about the aftermath of the war in Iraq [More]

It's hard to ride a motorcycle through three feet of snow... *
Sixty years ago this week, 76 Allied airmen broke out of a German prison camp in a bold but ill-fated quest for freedom. Only three got away. Fifty of those caught were executed. Yet thanks to a classic film their legend lives on. Has Hollywood done justice to history? JONATHAN VANCE investigates [More]

Jessica Lynch et alia: What the spin doctors ordered *
These women's sagas were real morale-boosters. Too bad about the way they were spun, says journalist RON HAGGART [More]

Jessica Lynch has $1-million story *
Jessica Lynch has struck a $1-million (U.S.) deal for a book that will tell the story of her capture and rescue in Iraq. But questions remain over how much she remembers.
Read original Jessica Lynch hoax exposé story from May, 2003: BBC exposé says rescue of U.S. Army private faked [More]

Jessica Lynch: A war hero? Or a pawn? *
Laura Regan, the daughter of a former Nova Scotia premier, has a unique perspective playing the role of rescued soldier Jessica Lynch, GUY DIXON writes. [More]

JUNO: Canadians at D-Day - June 6, 1944 (Keyes review) **
Ted Barris's history of the events on Juno Beach, right smack in the middle of the Normandy Invasion, has been hovering toward the bottom of the country's various best-seller's lists, which, when you think of it, is a typically Canadian way to recognize an underwhelming achievement. [More]

Kelly believed war only way to disarm Hussein: report *
The weapons scientist caught up in a storm about claims the government exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq believed war was the only way to eliminate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, a British newspaper reported Sunday. [More]

Kelly felt betrayed by bosses, wife testifies *
Weapons adviser David Kelly felt betrayed by the Ministry of Defence for confirming that he might be the source of a broadcast report questioning the British government's case for war in Iraq, his widow testified Monday [More]

Key Blair aide to resign *
Prime Minister Tony Blair's powerful communications chief Alastair Campbell, a central figure in the controversy over whether Britain exaggerated the Iraqi weapon threat to justify war, announced Friday that he will resign. [More]

Korea still dangerous flashpoint (part three of three) *
Tension increases in world's most heavily militarized zone, writes GEOFFREY YORK [More]

Korea: Chinese vets proudly recall taking on U.S. *
Mao's army pushed back Americans, says GEOFFREY YORK, to force Korean War stalemate [More]

Korea: Split by silence *
The fighting in Korea stopped on July 27, 1953, without a peace treaty. Fifty years later, most citizens of the North and South still talk of reunification as their ultimate goal. But when Toronto writer JIN DAVID KIM returns to piece together how the war affected his family, what he learns makes him doubt the great rift can ever be mended [More]

Korean War horrors linger, 50 years later *
Vets recall the savage human-wave assaults of this bloody conflict, GEOFFREY YORK writes [More]

Korean War: Canada's forgotten veterans *
Dave Crook huddled in his sleeping bag braced against the bitter cold of the Korean winter and thought about the Americans on the other side of the icy road. They, too, were in their sleeping bags. But they were dead — shot in their sleep the night before by a raiding platoon of Chinese soldiers. [More]

Learning to love BMD *
Canadians understand that we must use the proposed U.S. system, as well as other forms of weapons control, to confront terrorism and proliferation, says FRANK P. HARVEY. [More]

Lest we forget: In Flanders Fields *
Let us remember Canadian John's McCrae's poem on this special day. . . [More]

Lights, camera, Apocalypse! *
As bombs explode, locusts swarm and seas turn to blood, GAYLE MacDONALD investigates a growing appetite for 'endtimes entertainment' and finds that two brothers running a tiny film company in St. Catharines, Ont., are feeling the Rapture [More]

Love shines out from D-Day's shadow *
Once he flew bombers over the land where she sought cover. Years later, the two found shelter together, writes NATHALIE BIBEAU. [More]

Love the ones you hate *
Since 9/11, we've learned that we live in a thoroughly modern global village of terror [More]

Mastermind reveals Sept. 11 plot started in 1996 *
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, has told American interrogators that he first discussed the plot with Osama bin Laden in 1996 and that the original plan called for hijacking five commercial jets on each U.S. coast before it was modified several times, according to interrogation reports reviewed by The Associated Press. [More]

Media watchdogs call for inquiry into killing *
Journalism watchdogs called for an investigation into the killing of a Reuters cameraman by U.S. troops. [More]

Michael Ignatieff: Writer, thinker, action man ****
Michael Ignatieff is back with a new novel, RAY CONLOGUE writes, a result of 'intellectual post-traumatic shock' he suffered after witnessing the horrors of Bosnia [More]

Mideast peace may depend on the (formerly) unthinkable *
Yesterday's bloody attack on Israelis in Gaza demonstrated yet again Hamas's ability to derail relations with Israel and to undermine the Palestinian Authority. A vacuum in the peace process never favours the moderates, and by now the authority is too weak to forcibly disarm its strongest opponent. [More]

Mistaking brawn for brains *
The RCMP is a fine police force, but history -- and the Arar case -- confirm that political intelligence gathering isn't its forte, says The Globe's JEFF SALLOT. [More]

More harm than good *
Homeland Security's warning system scares off tourists and investors, while advertising America's vulnerability, says security analyst EDWARD LUTTWAK. [More]

Mystery illness hits more troops *
Two more soldiers overseas have come down with serious pneumonia, bringing the unexplained cases to 17, the U.S. Army said Monday. [More]

NATO in Iraq? But not yet *
The United States is suffering severely from George W. Bush's failure to establish a true multilateral coalition, with international legitimacy, for the war and its aftermath in Iraq. As one soldier on average dies each day, and as the costs of the Iraqi engagement are doubling, Washington has begun to hear a bipartisan call for bringing NATO into the management of Iraq. [More]

No magic to finding more soldiers *
The Canadian Forces are so threadbare, we'll soon have only 500 available troops. But given time and money, a postmodern army can be trained and equipped for action, says historian DESMOND MORTON. [More]

No weapons and a funeral *
The inquiry into Dr. David Kelly's suicide will confirm an embarrassing fact: The West knew that Iraq posed no threat, says military analyst SUNIL RAM [More]

On the Iraq war, we made a declaration of national integrity *
Words such as "epic" or "vindication" don't readily fit into the Canadian context. But the two years since 9/11 have constituted a landmark period in Canada-U.S. relations, and the decision on whether to go to war was about as epic as Canadian decisions get. [More]

Ottawa's unwelcome visitor *
Pervez Musharraf leads a terrorist state, says DAVID VAN PRAAGH. We forget that at our soldiers' peril. [More]

PADDY STEPHENSON 1918-2003 *
Pilot clipped bomber and was credited with two kills without firing a shot [More]

Pakistan 'has the stench of the apocalypse' *
Bernard-Henri Lévy, France's 'rock star' philosopher-journalist, traces the killing of reporter Daniel Pearl to high levels in Pakistan -- a U.S. ally that's a far graver threat than Saddam's Iraq, he tells CHRISTOPHER DREHER in New York City [More]

Paris-L.A. flights cancelled amid security fears *
Air France cancelled several flights to the United States after U.S. officials, on heightened alert for holiday terror attacks, passed on "credible" security threats involving passengers planning to fly from Paris to Los Angeles, U.S. and European officials said Wednesday. [More]

Pressure mounting on Bush and Blair *
Senior politicians on both sides of the Atlantic want answers to what is becoming the most asked question since major combat ended in Iraq: Where are the unconventional weapons the coalition said it went to war to destroy? [More]

Publisher pulls Honderich's book on Sept. 11 implications *
A German publisher has dropped a British-Canadian philosopher's book dealing with the fallout of the Sept. 11 attacks because of recent statements by the author that appear to support Palestinian "terrorism." [More]

Qusay *
Unlike his better-known big brother, Qusay Hussein liked to keep his hands clean and stay out of the spotlight. He let thousands of henchmen do his dirty work for him. [More]

Readers, please scour your attics *
By now, everyone must realize that something powerful and paradoxical has transpired in recent years in the realm of Canadian nationalism. [More]

Regime's fall allows buyers to snap up brand-name bargains *
Freedom is killing Haidar Lazem's back. Every morning for the past three months he has been carrying brand-new Hitachi refrigerators, 21-inch Samsung flat-screen televisions and Nokia satellite equipment out of his store onto the wide sidewalks of Baghdad's Karadeh Kharej Street [More]

Remembrance: He was the world to someone *
The young pilot who smiles out of an old photograph, dead long years, has slowly slipped into anonymity, says JONATHAN VANCE. That's regrettable. [More]

Reporter testifies at British probe *
British weapons adviser David Kelly held Prime Minister Tony Blair's communications director responsible for rewriting an intelligence dossier on Iraq's weapons program to make it "sexier," a BBC journalist testified Tuesday at an inquiry into Dr. Kelly's suicide. [More]

Reporters shown Hussein brothers' bodies *
Their faces covered in morticians' makeup, patches of hair sprouting from their scalps, two bodies were displayed to journalists Friday in a further attempt by American occupation authorities to convince sceptical Iraqis that Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay are really dead. [More]

Second Canadian dies in Baghdad bombing *
A second Canadian working to improve conditions for children in war-torn Iraq has died from the blast at UN headquarters in Baghdad that killed at least 20. [More]

Secrets of Sept. 11 *
A joint U.S. congressional inquiry into the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has confirmed that intelligence and law-enforcement agencies missed opportunities to foil the plot or at least blunt its eventual impact by warning the public. The reasons range from a failure to grasp the nature of the threat to serious mistakes in judgment and an inability to connect the dots between disparate pieces of information collected by different agencies that jealously guarded their own turf. [More]

Should this man be assassinated? *
Israel is perfectly within its rights to execute its terrorist enemies, says Harvard law professor ALAN DERSHOWITZ [More]

Slain Canadian soldier was 10 days from home *
Patrol in Kabul attacked by suicide bomber, leaving one dead and three wounded soldiers. [More]

Slovenia's Fanja Partisan Hospital *
This facility saved more than 500 lives between 1943 and 1945. [More]

Sri Lanka: Peace in the tiger's jaws *
Sri Lanka's latest turmoil has renewed deep questions about the necessary conditions for peace, say negotiators BOB RAE and DAVID CAMERON. [More]

Star Wars missile shield technology: It won't fly, but it can bite *
The Pentagon secretly admits that a missile shield isn't feasible, but that doesn't diminish NMD's power to back us into a corner, says MP JOHN GODFREY [More]

Student pilot ordered held *
A student pilot whose flight route took him near a nuclear power plant likely poses a security threat and must remain at a detention facility while investigators scour for more evidence, an immigration hearing ruled Thursday. [More]

Surprises in the pro-war ranks *
Was the war in Iraq immoral and illegitimate? [More]

Terror scare creates airline havoc *
Fearing a murky terrorist plot to crash jetliners into buildings or blow them up over Washington or Los Angeles, U.S. security agencies continued to divert and cancel incoming flights last week, while armed warplanes shadowed or intercepted other aircraft. [More]

Terrorism's new Mecca *
Religious terrorists are now mobilizing in Iraq, finding recruits among Muslims who feel humiliated by their U.S. occupiers, says security specialist JESSICA STERN. [More]

Terrorist arrests: The arguments made in protection's name *
Democracies put an enormous value on fundamental freedoms, yet those very freedoms may make them vulnerable to attack. The difficulty is to protect a free society without undermining it in the process. [More]

The Fall of Berlin 1945 ****
Says reviewer John T.D. Keyes: "(Author Anthony) Beevor was once an officer in the 11th Hussars, and so not surprisingly he displays a keen eye for the minutiae of warfare from the perspective of the man on the battlefield." [More]

The Fog of War: A private eye for the truth *
Words tell us how a person sees the world, Errol Morris tells RICK GROEN. In The Fog of War, he lets Robert McNamara do the talking. [More]

The fourth world war *
For two years, the U.S. has pursued the culprits behind the 9/11 atrocities with a vengeance that has shocked and awed ally and enemy alike. But even the devastating attacks on the Afghan and Iraqi regimes don't illustrate the true scope of the campaign, DOUG SAUNDERS reports. While everyone was preoccupied with the fireworks, Washington has quietly deployed thousands of agents in a secretive struggle that may last a lifetime [More]

The government can still make amends to our disabled vets *
As the world commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, Canada's war veterans are once again outraged at the failure of our government to honour their contribution. [More]

The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny ****
Interest in Scott Anderson’s 1999 investigative biography is bound to be revived now that Harrison Ford has reportedly signed to play the book’s protagonist. John T.D. Keyes reviews this heretofore overlooked book.

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The merchant and the missile *
Arrest of London salesman comes amid new fears of al-Qaeda terrorist strikes [More]

The peace goes to pieces *
It will take more than a commitment of 500 Canadians, needed as they are, to save Afghanistan, says Human Rights Watch's SAMAN ZIA-ZARIFI. [More]

The return of the Shining Path *
In Peru, the very mention of Sendero Luminoso -- the Shining Path -- evokes painful memories of the neo-Marxist revolutionary group that blurred the concepts of terror, crime and war; a fanatical group that went beyond the typical confines of rural guerrilla warfare to major offensives involving extensive urban terror. [More]

The shot seen around the world *
Behind the creation of some remarkable film. [More]

The soldier who refuses to fight *
Jeremy Hinzman tells MICHAEL VALPY that he enlisted to get an education, not to kill people. But his superiors wouldn't listen and ordered him to pack for Iraq. Instead, he packed up his family and hightailed it north. Now, Canada must decide: Can a U.S. Army deserter be considered a refugee? [More]

The war that never went away *
A Canadian TV series on the Korean War probes secrets the U.S. would prefer to forget, writes RAY CONLOGUE. [More]

They're spies, not soothsayers *
The CSIS Air-India investigation showed a failure of imagination, not of intention, says analyst WESLEY WARK [More]

Thirty Days: Tony Blair and the Test of History-- This 'poodle' is not for turning *
At 7:30 a.m. on the morning of April 7, 2003, as the newly-captured Baghdad airport was receiving its first U.S. planes and British troops were securing the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Tony Blair was playing with a toy train set. [More]

Tony and the tangled web *
The British Prime Minister's moral certainty got his country into Iraq. It's hardly the right strategy to get him out of the Kelly affair, says political scientist JENNIFER WELSH [More]

Transcripts of frantic WTC calls made public *
Transcripts of harrowing emergency phone calls made by people stranded in the burning World Trade Center towers depict the horror and chaos of the morning and brought a flood of harsh memories back for the families of victims only two weeks before the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks. [More]

Two down, one to go *
The good news from Iraq: There's food in the markets, a new governing council and Saddam's sons are dead... [More]

Two more U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq *
Two more U.S. soldiers were killed in combat Wednesday, and the relief agency Oxfam became the fourth non-governmental organization to pull some or all of its foreign staff out of Iraq because of the increasing danger. Total of U.S. soldiers killed since the war "ended" now equal to those who died "during the war." [More]

U.S. adviser criticizes PM's failure to help U.S. *
A leading architect of the U.S. war in Iraq says he expects an improvement in Canada-U.S. relations under a Paul Martin government, since they could hardly get worse than under Jean Chrétien's leadership. [More]

U.S. again brands Canada terrorist haven *
Canada has been branded a "favoured destination for terrorists and international criminals" by the research arm of the U.S. Congress. [More]

U.S. blurs high-tech images of Washington *
The U.S. government is selectively blurring some of its highest-quality aerial photographs of Washington to hide objects in plain view on the roofs of the White House, Capitol and Treasury Department. [More]

U.S. Policy: A wolf in wolf's clothing *
Washington is still punishing those who oppose its foreign wars -- as a new squabble at the UN reveals, says JOHN R. MacARTHUR [More]

U.S. probes pneumonia cases in Iraq *
A U.S. Army medical team is heading to Iraq to look into what has caused 15 serious cases of pneumonia among troops in the area, including two fatalities, military officials said yesterday. [More]

U.S. releases photos of Hussein's sons *
Editor's Warning: Story contains graphic photographs
The United States released grisly photos Thursday to convince Iraqis that Saddam Hussein's sons were dead and to weaken support for an anti-American insurgency. [More]

U.S.: 'We were all wrong' *
Iraq did not possess banned weapons, former arms expert tells senators. [More]

Uday *
If only a fraction of the catalogue of alleged crimes and the tales of corruption and debauchery are true, Uday Hussein was evil personified. [More]

UN staffer says desk saved her life *
Montreal woman credits colleague's scrounging skills for her survival in Baghdad blast [More]

United States' threat level rises to orange *
The U.S. government on Sunday raised its national threat level to orange, the second-highest, saying attacks were possible during the holiday season and that threat indicators are "perhaps greater now than at any point" since Sept. 11, 2001. [More]

Veterans commemorate Korean war armistice *
Old soldiers from around the world, some in wheelchairs and many wearing combat medals, commemorated the 50th anniversary Sunday of the armistice that ended the Korean War. [More]

War: greed, not grievance *
It's too easy to blame armed conflict around the world for ethnic strife, says MADELAINE DROHAN [More]

When history meets the eye *
The riches of the Aerial Reconnaissance Archives are opened to the public. [More]

White House told not to shred papers *
FBI investigates e-mails, phone logs in leaking of name of CIA operative. [More]

Who sexed up the story? *
They say that dead men tell no tales. But sometimes their deeds speak volumes. By killing himself, British bio-weapons expert David Kelly has turned Britain's political crisis on its head -- and left the BBC with a whole lot of explaining to do. [More]

Who speaks for Canada? *
We've been left out of a crucial meeting on high-seas interdiction, say MICHAEL BYERS and MATTHEW DROZ, even though we are one of the few nations with practical and legal experience [More]

Who's winning the war on terror? Sorry, George *
It has been two years since U.S. President George W. Bush declared war on terrorism, and it's time to ask who's winning. Here's the score so far [More]

Why the world needs a Mein Kampf sequel *
The translation of a second book by Adolf Hitler, unpublished in his lifetime, may be unpleasant business, writes CHRISTOPHER DREHER. But historians argue that it offers an uncensored look at his rise to power, and how much sooner the world should have recognized the danger. [More]

Would do it again, Blair says *
Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose popularity has sagged after taking Britain to war in Iraq, told his restless Labour Party on Tuesday that he would make the same decision again and defended his leadership. [More]

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'One from our family is plenty' *
If you have no one specific to mourn this Nov. 11, spare a moment of remembrance for Private Jay Batiste Moyer. [More]

'Ukraine's Holocaust' slowly acknowledged *
Olga Skoba's memories of the great famine in her village are dominated by a single image. [More]

A Canadian way for Al-Jazeera *
There was a time when banning the importation of Al-Jazeera, the Arabic news channel, would have been consistent with Canadian values. Indeed, in the early 1930s, a principal rationale for regulating radio was to protect our sovereignty. [More]

A celebration of the fallen from first to last *
In 1914, the population of the County Tipperary town in which I was born, and that of the town lands around it, was about 5,000 people. Some 1,500 young men -- mill boys, the sons of tenant farmers, servants and grooms to the gentry -- went off to fight in what was later called The Great War. Most of them never came back. [More]

BBC exposé says rescue of U.S. Army private faked *
The morale-boosting, too-good-to-be-true rescue of Pte. Jessica Lynch by U.S. special forces is put under close scrutiny by the BBC documentary War Spin: The Truth About Jessica, airing Sunday night on CBC Newsworld's Passionate Eye. [More]

Beijing pulls pages from Clinton memoir *
Former first lady's frank references to repression in China fail to appear in new Mandarin edition. [More]

Better brace for history's blowback, Mr. Blair *
So now it is up to history to make the case for war against Iraq? In a week when Tony Blair appealed to the verdict of history and Hollywood studios have upped the ante on digital pirates in Asia, it strikes me that in their urge to impose their authority, these masters of mass media forget the incontrovertible, inexorable logic of history -- that those who dream of dominating the world should expect the world to overrun them. [More]

Blair confident history will be kind *
British PM tells Congress Hussein regime caused 'inhuman carnage and suffering' [More]

Blair defends decision to invade Iraq *
British Prime Minister Tony Blair says history "will forgive" the Iraq war even if it turns out that Saddam Hussein didn't pose an immediate threat with weapons of mass destruction. [More]

Blair vows to co-operate with probe into death *
Judge makes it clear only he will decide extent of inquiry into apparent suicide [More]

Blood spatters the American road map *
To borrow from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel, the fate of the American road map already seems like a "chronicle of a death foretold." To really understand what happened, one has to go back to last week's summit in Aqaba and its respective impact on Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud, Mr. Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. [More]

Body found believed to be British defence adviser, Dr. David Kelly *
The discovery of a body found in an Oxfordshire wood, believed to be that of an expert on Iraqi weapons programs, has added a dark twist to questions about the intelligence Prime Minister Tony Blair used to justify war. [More]

Bolder than ever *
Forget U.S. claims about a new era in the Mideast; 25 years after the fall of the Shah, war in neighbouring Iraq has encouraged Iran's hard-liners, says SAEED RAHNEMA. [More]

Bush defends war in Iraq during state visit *
Welcomed to Britain with royal pageantry and a smattering of anti-war protesters, U.S. President George W. Bush defended the war in Iraq, saying Wednesday that military must at times be used to confront the continuing, global danger of terrorism. [More]

Bush's warfare state *
The Iraq quagmire and its ever-mutating justifications show that George W. Bush is oblivious to a basic principle of his own conservative ideology: Top-down central planning -- economic or political -- is doomed to fail. [More]

D-Day remembered *
Amid silent rows of crosses, leaders from more than a dozen countries put aside their differences Sunday to thank the Allied forces behind one of the most decisive military battles of all time — the D-Day invasion that broke Nazi Germany's grip on continental Europe. [More]

Don't crush this chance for peace *
Israel has the right to defend itself even when it's in the midst of talking peace, says MARCUS GEE [More]

Ex-general enters U.S. presidential race *
Retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark entered a crowded and wide-open race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday. [More]

Father's nightmare begins after son arrested *
The ordeal began with a midnight phone call. Azmat Begg, a retired banker, grappled for the receiver after a shrill ring roused him from sleep. "Dad, I've been arrested," whispered the voice of his son Moazzam. [More]

For the children's sake *
International laws concerning the treatment of children during times of conflict seem to be forgotten in this war against terrorism, says SHEEMA KHAN [More]

For whom the bell tolls *
Only Benjamin Britten's War Requiem dares question the role of society in war, ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN writes [More]

G8 leaders all smiles *
World leaders clamped a harmonious face on a summit simmering with Iraq war disputes Sunday, striking a united front with pledges of billions of dollars to fight AIDS and hunger in poor countries. [More]

Geneva: the road to peace *
Although the recently released Geneva accord outlining a potential Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is far from perfect or complete, it's a welcome development. [More]

Greenspan says terror tops all risks *
Senate committee weighs extending tenure of Fed chairman another four years [More]

In praise of the city and its slickers *
The writer and thinker Ian Buruma, who is a relentlessly cosmopolitan type -- grew up in the Netherlands, lived for years in Asia, teaches in the United States, writes for journals all over the globe -- has been writing with frequency about various forms of resistance to Western culture around the world. [More]

Iraq has Martin set to prune an unruly Bush *
'You don't even want to think about it," a Canadian diplomat was saying the other night. He had been asked what the effect would have been on the Canada-U.S. relationship had the Iraq war gone the other way -- had the weapons stocks been found, had the Iraqis welcomed the army of occupation, had terrorism receded as a result of the invasion. [More]

It went to hell and back *
Ninety years on, it still has the power to move. [More]

Jeffrey Kofman -- He's, gasp, Canadian *
When an ABC reporter recently broadcast a story from Iraq that infuriated the Bush administration, White House officials scrambled to find the best way to hit back, says NPR ombudsman JEFFREY DVORKIN [More]

Jonathan Safran Foer: 'I hit the book lottery' *
Jonathan Safran Foer wears the wunderkind label he earned for his debut novel lightly, SIMON HOUPT writes. The best part of fame, he says, is that the world is more receptive [More]

Lord Shawcross, 101 *
Lord Shawcross, who was Britain's chief prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg and a representative at the United Nations through the late 1940s, died Thursday, his secretary said. He was 101. [More]

Made-to-measure justice *
To cope with the future, Iraq must come to grips with its past, says law professor RUTI TEITEL. And that's a job for the United Nations [More]

Powell seeks expanded NATO role in Iraq *
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday praised NATO's contribution to creating a stable, democratic Iraq and called on the allies to consider an expansion of their commitment. [More]

Prank message via Google mocks WMD search *
The hunt for weapons of mass destruction isn't going so well in Iraq. It's not going so well on Google, either. [More]

Remember. . . *
New York, NY, September 11, 2001 [More]

Report attacks U.S. intelligence failings *
Failure to share intelligence on two future Sept. 11 hijackers destroyed perhaps the best chance to stop the attacks, says the final report of a congressional inquiry that details a maddening government chain of actions not taken, information not shared and help not given. [More]

Retired general to throw hat in U.S. ring *
Clark's army background could undercut Bush's position as anti-terror war leader [More]

Second Bush statement on Iraq debunked *
A key Iraqi scientist recently told the CIA high-strength aluminum tubes bought by Iraq weren't meant for nuclear bomb production, as U.S. President George W. Bush suggested in his State of the Union address, two experts on Iraq's nuclear program said. [More]

Shoot down defence dreamers *
Canada must realize the old, joint-command NORAD is finished. Missile defence under U.S.-leadership is our only realistic option, says Washington correspondent PAUL KORING [More]

Show trials are not the solution to Saddam's heinous reign *
It is difficult to contemplate, after the many horrors of the last century, that a government could get away with murdering a quarter of a million people. [More]

Silvio Berlusconi: The singing strongman *
Love him or hate him, Italians admit that Silvio Berlusconi is never boring, least of all when he starts writing music for a torch singer. But this week's carnage among the Carabinieri serving in Iraq has the billionaire Prime Minister under the gun, ALAN FREEMAN reports from Rome. [More]

This is no time for half-measures, Mr. Sharon *
It's a familiar pattern: For Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, convincing Israel to release a significant number of Palestinian political prisoners is not just another test of Israel's sincerity in implementing the "roadmap" to peace, but a key to Mr. Abbas's political survival in a skeptical Palestinian constituency. [More]

Truth and other casualties *
Retracted news stories, hidden body bags, and a deaf ear for experienced soldiers: no wonder morale is down in Iraq, says author MONIKA JENSEN-STEVENSON. [More]

U.S. got lucky, experts agree *
Medical officials tracking SARS in Canada and East Asia say fate is the primary factor that has allowed the United States to avoid outbreaks of the deadly disease, though precautions against bioterrorism taken after Sept. 11, 2001, have helped. [More]

U.S. House votes to protect fetus *
The House voted Thursday to subject assailants who injure or kill a pregnant woman and her fetus to two separate crimes. The bill would for the first time under federal law give victim's rights to a fetus. [More]

US will hold a grudge against Canada: Rice *
The Bush administration's disappointment with Canada for refusing to join the war on Iraq will not disappear quickly, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said yesterday. [More]

War for a country's spirit *
The murder of Shia leaders in Najaf is a bid to divide Iraq, and destabilize the region. The world's only hope is to build an Iraq of respect, justice and inclusion, says Jordan's PRINCE HASSAN. [More]

War stories: When politicians cry wolf *
Did they make it up? Or, in the memorable words of that anonymous British intelligence source, did they "sex it up"? [More]

Watchdogs in the war on terror *
The U.S. lawyers who championed Maher Arar's cause may be dedicated, SHAWN McCARTHY reports from New York, but popular? The hate mail says otherwise. [More]

Western airlines threatened *
A statement bearing al-Qaeda's name warned Monday that western airliners will be the terror group's target... [More]

Why Canada must not intercept asylum-seekers *
In 1948, the world was still reeling from the horrors of the Holocaust and the failure of states to protect Jews fleeing Germany. To prevent a recurrence of such atrocities, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously declared that "everyone has the right to seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution." [More]

Why two women went to war *
Jessica Lynch and Rachel Corrie could have passed for sisters. Two all-American blondes, two destinies forever changed in a Middle East war zone. Private Jessica Lynch, the soldier, was born in Palestine, W.Va. Rachel Corrie, the activist, died in Israeli-occupied Palestine. [More]