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Even at the height of the crisis between France and the USA in March 2003, regarding the war in Iraq, the two countries were cooperating closely on terrorism issues. Today, in a somewhat warmer climate, France and the US are still sharing major intelligence information. But do we share the same definition for the word Terrorism? Unfortunately, the answer is obviously no. A few days ago, Jean Francois Cope, Spokesman of the French Government and Vice Interior Minister, addressed the American Jewish Committee’s Annual Conference in Washington DC. I had the opportunity to interview him, along with Jean David Levitte,...

BEIJING -- It may look like Mission Control in Houston, but this space complex had been hidden from the world until Wednesday -- when U.S. officials got their first look at the command center that recently sent China's first manned flight into orbit and back. "Congratulations. You've had a great success," Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Chinese space program officials during his 40-

One of the most tediously over-venerated bits of political wisdom comes from the late British prime minister Harold MacMillan. It was his characteristically laconic Edwardian response as to what he feared most in the months ahead: "Events, dear boy, events." It turns up in a gazillion books of quotations and 1,000 Fleet Street columns as if it's some brilliant insight. It's not. It's an urbane banality. Even events come, so to speak, politically predetermined. If, for example, you have powerful public sector unions, you will be at the mercy of potentially crippling strikes. The quasi-Eastern European Britain of the 1970s...

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Dean will still have a hard time selling himself as a moderate. It's not just his opposition to the war--though that may pose more of a problem now that Saddam Hussein has been captured. No, the real reason Dean will not be able to escape a liberal caricature has little to do with policy and everything to do with a warning flag that will mark him as culturally alien to much of the country: Howard Dean is one of the most secular candidates to run for president in modern history. 

On the face of it, Friday morning's crop of headlines looks pretty good for Saddam Hussein. If he could read them from his current residence, likely to be a sewer in Tikrit, he might think that he has again conned much of the American media with the same ease that he mislead Hans Blix. He would be thrilled to read that many have decided that the U.S. arms investigator, David Kay, who heads up the Iraq Survey Group, has drawn a blank in his search for Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)...

New evidence suggests that a leading Muslim spokesman in the U.S. associated with terror suspects Oct. 1 — Federal prosecutors have obtained intriguing evidence that a prominent Muslim activist who helped recruit chaplains for the U.S. military may have had far more extensive contacts with suspected terrorists than was previously known, including meetings with a well-known associate of the September 11 hijackers, NEWSWEEK has learned.

MAJ. GEN. JAMES MATTIS: But we were out to win the trust of the Iraqi people. We knew we were an American foreign force, largely Christian force, and we occupied, for example, two of the holy cities of the Shiia. What we did not want to do was find ourselves in a position of creating a conflict. So I sent about 15,000 of my 23,000 men home. I got rid of all my tanks and armored personnel carriers. Marines went on dismounted patrols. We had wave tactics, waving to the people, assuming we were there as friends. Eventually that expectation...

Indeed, the inexperienced Clark seems to have appeal for only two reasons: He is a renowned military official and he is perceived as being a straight shooter. And that's precisely why pundits don't like his chances; because as more and more information about Clark surfaces, it becomes evident that his military record is imperfect and his shooting anything but straight.

Jack Ryan tries to convince Democrat-leaning state to try lower U.S. taxes

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030924/2003092415.html Except The Islamic al-Awqaf department in Jerusalem have accused the Israeli authorities of being behind the collapse of an internal wall in al-Aqsa mosque yesterday after it had prevented its engineers form maintaining it. The collapsed wall is situated near the Islamic museum on a hill in old Jerusalem where the mosque is situated. This wall is considered new in comparison to other parts of the mosque. The director of the Islamic Awqaf in Jerusalem Adnan al-Husseini said that the wall collapsed as a result of "the Israeli intervention in our work and preventing us from maintaining it after...