Every administration aims for something close to complete control over the nation's foreign policy. The idea is that the United States, while open to debating disparate views at home, should speak clearly with one voice when it comes to dealing with other countries. But that principle is frequently challenged as lawmakers, former officials, and assorted VIPs step into the role of roving freelance diplomat–and enjoy the fruits of being actors on the global stage.
Mutobo, Rwanda—Ezekiel Nzamwita fidgets awkwardly in a ratty T-shirt and baggy jacket. The onetime primary-school teacher is still getting used to civilian garb after spending a decade in prison-issue pink jumpsuits. "Ten years is a long time," he says, "but things have become better." A confessed killer, Nzamwita is one of about 8,000 genocide suspects released in February from Rwanda's overcrowded prisons as part of a national reconciliation effort after the 1994 bloodletting that claimed a million lives. The 51-year-old Hutu admitted being part of a group that killed a Tutsi man and stole his cows. Nzamwita won his freedom after asking the victim's brother for forgiveness.
The killing was systematic. It was relentless. It was brutal. The weapon of choice was the machete and, the killers were people's neighbors and colleagues and friends. As many as 1 million Rwandans were killed in just three months during the spring of 1994.
AP - A car bomb blasted through a busy bus station near one of Iraq's holiest shrines Saturday, killing at least 37 people, police and hospital officials said.
AP - The latest missed deadline in the tortuous years of negotiations aimed at getting North Korea to stop making nuclear weapons is not expected to derail the process, but it is a sign of the lingering mistrust between Washington and the communist nation.
AP - Surgery on Gov. Jon S. Corzine's injured leg was successful Saturday, while a state official said the driver blamed for the wreck that critically injured the governor had been found but would not be charged.
A suicide car bomber killed dozens of people and wounded 128 at a bustling bus station near the major Shia shrine in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala today.
Millions of White House e-mails may be missing, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino acknowledged Friday. "I wouldn't rule out that there were a potential 5 million e-mails lost," Perino said. A liberal watchdog group alleges that over a two-year period official White House e-mail traffic for hundreds of days has vanished -- in possible violation of the federal Presidential Records Act.
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