Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens America's SecurityRegnery Publishing, 01.09.2003 - 256 Seiten In Dangerous Diplomacy, investigative reporter Joel Mowbray exposes the hidden agendas, mixed allegiances, and outright anti–Americanism that has infected the U.S. State Department. Relying on exhaustive interviews with State Department personnel and extensive research into State's publications, procedures, and recent history, Mowbray reveals an astounding pattern of shortsighted and misguided policies, compounded by an ingrained and self–criticism and correction. |
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Courting Saddam | 105 |
Crushing Freedom | 141 |
Visas Everywhere Terrorists Want Them to Be | 161 |
Justice Denied | 185 |
Wrong Hands The Arming of the Middle East | 205 |
Fixing State To the Extent Its Possible | 227 |
Documents | 245 |
Notes | 271 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
Index | 299 |
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Seite 79 - Syria are the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS).
Seite 68 - I can leave with you tonight, it is that the United States Government does not view Islam as the next "ism" confronting the West or threatening world peace. That is an overly-simplistic response to a complex reality.
Seite 77 - Secret police are also entrenched in other countries, such as China, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Cuba, and Albania. The rulers of these countries hold power by force and fear, not by the consent of the governed. But as East Europeans demonstrated so dramatically in 1989, the tide of history is against such rulers. The 1990s should belong not to the dictators and secret police, but to the people
Seite 121 - ... heart, peritoneum, and the adrenals. Brucella Melitensis: a bacteria which can cause chronic fatigue, loss of appetite, profuse sweating when at rest, pain in joints and muscles, insomnia, nausea, and damage to major organs. Clostridium Perfringens: a highly toxic bacteria which causes gas gangrene. The bacteria produce toxins that move along muscle bundles in the body killing cells and producing necrotic tissue that is then favorable for further growth of the bacteria itself. Eventually, these...
Seite 126 - Human rights, as such, are not recognized in Iraq ... the ordinary Iraqi citizen knows no personal security against government violence. Disappearances, followed by secret executions, appear to be common. In some cases, a family only learns that one of its loved ones has been executed when the security services return the body and, in line with the Iraqi regime's view of justice, require the family to pay a fine. The testimony included other words, such as "torture is routine ...," and "there is...
Seite 121 - By the time of the invasion of Kuwait, Iraq had developed biological weapons. Its advanced and aggressive biological warfare program was the most advanced in the Arab world.
Seite 246 - A nonimmigrant in any category in whose case the responsible consular officer determines that a waiver of personal appearance in the individual case is warranted in the national Interest or because of unusual circumstances, Including hardship to the visa applicant.
Seite 122 - ... identified by the Department of Defense in The Conduct of the Persian Gulf War: Final Report to Congress, as being a major component in the Iraqi biological warfare program. Anthrax is an often-fatal infectious disease due to ingestion of spores. It begins abruptly with high fever, difficulty in breathing, and chest pain. The disease eventually results in septicemia (blood poisoning), and the mortality is high.
Seite 131 - Our ability to influence Iraqi policies in areas important to us, from Lebanon to the Middle East peace process, will be heavily influenced by the outcome of the CCC negotiations.