A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the U.S. base at Bagram while Vice President Dick Cheney was inside. The Taliban claimed responsibility and said Mr. Cheney was the target.
The dark art of intelligence, never far from the surface in our post-9/11 world, is once again front and center, only not exactly in the way President Bush might have wished. After several weeks of on-again, off-again promises of a top-secret briefing on the alleged role of Iranian agents in the nightmarish violence of Iraq, U.S. military officials finally decided to deliver the goods in a secret briefing to reporters in Baghdad-and promptly stubbed their toe. The charge of Iranian meddling in Iraq is a grave one and needs to be dealt with seriously. But given the Bush administration's dismal record in the intelligence arena, the Baghdad briefing was handled in the worst way possible. No cameras or tape recorders were allowed. The identity of the intelligence analyst who led the briefing was not disclosed. And despite weeks of careful vetting by intelligence and military officials back in Washington, the briefing ran disastrously off message. This is all the more sad for the fact that there was, at the heart of the briefing, what appeared to be some very credible evidence to support the allegations against Iran.
In pursuing the American dream, Hector Garcia figured he was doing everything right. A hardworking welder with two jobs and a new family, he bought his first house 4 1/2 years ago in Denver's Montbello neighborhood.
Among the incongruous scenes in Chinese cities like Shanghai and Beijing are little stores selling the wares of Amway, Mary Kay, and other companies that normally rely on an army of foot soldiers to peddle their products. For seven years, the Chinese government banned these direct-sales companies from using chains of individuals to sell cosmetics, household cleaners, and other goods from their homes. So, to avoid missing out on the growing Chinese market, the companies radically shifted their business models. For the first time, they opened up stores and factories, absorbing the higher costs, and some reported taking huge losses.
AP - A suicide bomber attacked the entrance to the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, killing up to 23 people and wounding 20.
AP - Wall Street fell sharply in early trading Tuesday, joining a global stock decline on growing concerns about slowing economies in the U.S. and China. Worries that U.S. stocks are about to embark on a major correction fed the drop, which took the Dow Jones industrials down more than 120 points.
AP - The International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Tuesday named a former Sudanese junior minister and a militia leader as suspects in war crimes and crimes against humanity in the country's Darfur region.
Eleven people, including the U.S. and Italian ambassadors to Sri Lanka, were injured when suspected rebels fired on their helicopter upon landing in the eastern city of Batticaloa Tuesday, Sri Lankan military sources told CNN.
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