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	Zakaria: The Saudi Trap A trip through the kingdom reveals what really needs to be done in the war on terror • FULL STORY

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POSTED TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2004

• Dickey: Digging Through Dusty Saddam Files
Is there credible evidence tying Hussein to 9/11? Absolutely not. Were there good reasons to worry about his links to radical Islamists. Yes, indeed.

POSTED THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2004

• Athens Will Be Ready for Games, Says Mayor
The mayor of the next Olympic host city says Athens will be ready, safe and prepared to party in August

POSTED TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2004

• French Mayor Threatened Over Gay Wedding
Mayor Noël Mamere explains why he will perform France’s first gay marriage ceremony—and why he has received threats and a parcel of excrement in the mail

POSTED FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2004

• Iraq's Shahristani on Handover, Abu Ghraib
After scientiest Hussain al-Shahristani declined, an established politician got the nod

POSTED THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2004

• Liu: Will Al-Sadr Get Away With Murder?
The Najaf ceasefire raises questions about when—and if—Moqtada al-Sadr will ever face trial on charges of murder and theft

POSTED WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2004

• Amnesty Head Says Terror War Is Failing
Amnesty International’s executive director says governments who fight terror often become guilty of human-rights abuses themselves

POSTED THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2004

• Dickey: What Jordan’s King Can Teach Bush
Jordan’s King Abdullah may be one of the few voices of reason that George W. Bush really hears

• Chalabi Raid Was Over Corruption, Not Politics
Why did U.S. and Iraqi forces raid Ahmad Chalabi's home? The real reason was a widening trail of corruption that has little to do with his political agenda

• Mohamed ElBaradei on the Nuclear Threat
IAEA director-general Mohamed ElBaradei discusses the threat of nuclear proliferation—and how it could affect global security

POSTED WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2004

• Q&A: Why Did Sonia Gandhi Refuse PM Post?
An analyst assesses the impact of Sonia Gandhi’s refusal to be India’s new prime minister—and why she went into politics in the first place

• Terror Watch: Behind the Decision to Cut Funding to Chalabi
Why the Pentagon cut off funding to the Iraqi National Congress

• Melinda Liu: Can Anyone Stop the Violence in Iraq?
The killing of a top Iraqi official has the country wondering whether anyone can stop the lawlessness in Iraq

POSTED THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2004

• Q&A: Syria's Bashar Assad on U.S. Sanctions
Syrian President Bashar Assad discusses events in the Middle East and the new sanctions against Damascus

• Q&A: The Politics of Denial
A political psychologist explains the roles denial, emotion and childhood punishment play in politics

PAST WORLD NEWS COVERAGE

• Interrogation: A Tortured Debate
Amid feuding and turf battles, lawyers in the White House discussed specific terror-interrogation techniques like 'water-boarding' and 'mock burials'

• Iraq: Death Ride
Blood and tears in Sadr City

• Rebels With a Cause
Iraq's well-armed Kurds could go their own way

• 'Someone Was Going to Kill'
A former Palestinian prime minister on secret plans and plots

HIGHLIGHTS

Table of Contents

•	Dickey: Digging Through Dusty Saddam Files
•	Inside the Politics of the 9/11 Commission
•	Michael Moore Deconstructs 9/11
•	Fareed Zakaria: Is Saudi Arabia Doomed?

SPECIAL SECTION

Dateline: Switzerland

•	Coverage of the big issues and leading players at the World Economic Forum

PHOTO GALLERY

More Iraq photo galleries

After word of Saddam Hussein's capture by U.S. forces spread like wildfire through Baghdad and the world, citizens took to the streets to spontaneously applaud his fall. These images show an oppressed people celebrating the toppling of a tyrant

•	Launch Flash presentation

SPECIAL SECTION: THE WAR IN IRAQ

•	Complete Web and magazine coverage, plus multimedia and interactives

PERSPECTIVES

"You [interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi] are the symbol of evil and the infidel nation; you are the source of all traitors. We will carry on our jihad against the Western infidel and the Arab apostate until Islamic rule is back on Earth."
—a recording purportedly made by al-Qaida-linked militant Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, published online Wednesday.

SPECIAL SECTION: ISSUES 2004

Power: Who's Got It Now

•	America's Imperial Anemia
•	Iraq Effect: D.C. Upside Down
•	Nepotism: Another American Tradition
•	The Internet: A Net of Control?

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