[• Many leading Democrats say they are uneasy about Dean's candidacy for president and are reluctant to cede him the nomination for fear that his combative style and antiwar stance will leave Democrats vulnerable in November. They acknowledge Dean has run a strategically savvy campaign that has made him the candidate to beat. But their worry has been heightened anew, they say, by Dean's statement this week that the capture of Saddam Hussein] did not make America safer ... I did not believe the theory I was putting out. |
[A U.S. counter-terrorism official said bin Laden promised that] the results ... will be known within weeks. |
[A]s of July 2005, this commission was not yet fully operational, according to Treasury. |
[Another official said talk of a 90-day ultimatum or an official] demarche ... ideas kicked around by people but not ideas that are anywhere close to making it to the president's desk. |
[Earlier, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he is] suspicious ... what kind of ally we have here. |
[Freedom of religion, the report said,] does not exist ... women have few political or social rights and are not treated as equal members of society. |
[He claimed that the report was] harsher ... Iran has a better religious freedom record than Saudi Arabia - there are churches and synagogues and ... non-Muslim celebrations on Iranian TV. |
[In Saudi Arabia, the report noted the government's] human rights record remained poor, ... views its interpretation of Islamic law as its sole source of guidance on human rights and disagrees with internationally accepted definitions of human rights. |
[Kalin said the embassy is] strongly urging Americans to depart ... those Americans who do choose to remain to exercise the utmost caution. |
[Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah said her approach was] frank, honest and brave. ... We feel she was fair and evenhanded in her discussions with the Palestinians and Israelis. |
[Simmons, author of] Twilight in the Desert, ... We are in a deep hole and we have to stop digging. |
[The father said his son spent a year in Afghanistan to] take part in charity activities ... four months after the September attacks. |
a generous humanitarian act. |
a theology of holy terror and the means to live the plotters' life. |
All the dynamics are pulling the country apart, ... bring other countries in the region into the conflict. |