On January 15, the
BBC quoted outgoing U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge as saying that
the U.S. did not condone the use of torture to extract information from terrorists,
but that under an "extreme set" of hypothetical circumstances, such
as a nuclear threat, "it could happen." Heaven help us
China is building up military forces and setting up bases along sea lanes
from the Middle East to project its power overseas and protect its oil shipments,
according to a previously undisclosed internal report.
Pentagon police on Wednesday
turned away family members of troops killed in Iraq who wanted to confront
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the reasons for the war in Iraq.
