Even before the fighting began after 9/11, the Bush administration decided it needed new powers to use against the enemy and, some Americans would say, US citizens. The USA Patriot act became law in October 2001, sweeping away limits on the sharing of intelligence between agencies such as the FBI and CIA and giving the government considerably more intrusive powers to spy on Americans. In the book
In recent weeks there has been a flurry of "al-Qaida" activity. We have seen alleged plots in Europe fomented in the Pakistani tribal areas, package bombs found on planes bound for Chicago from the Yemen, various arrests in America and elsewhere, and the sentencing of a 21-year-old British woman who stabbed a member of parliament, Stephen Timms, who had supported the war in Iraq. The latter, Rosho
President Obama attended Santo Fransiskus Asisi, a Roman Catholic school, as a child. He will visit Jakarta on Tuesday.Credit...Sinartus Sosrodjojo for The New York Times JAKARTA, Indonesia � The two houses where he spent part of his boyhood stand pretty much the way they did when he went back to Hawaii four decades ago. The two schools he attended have grown larger but, in spirit, remain unchange
The head of the World Bank has reignited the debate over the future of the global monetary system by urging world leaders to consider reintroducing a gold standard to guide currency movements. Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, said today that the world's largest economies should build a more co-operative monetary system. This would increase investor confidence and stimulate future econ
Updated | Tuesday 2:48 p.m. Reports on German news sites indicate that the Kristallnacht memorial in Frankfurt passed off without incident on Tuesday evening. A photograph of the event on the Web site of Süddeutschen Zeitung showed the keynote speaker, Alfred Grosser, and Dieter Graumann, a leader of Germany’s Jewish community, smiling together. Original Post: An Israeli diplomat in Germany condem
George Bush ordered the Pentagon to plan an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities and considered a covert attack on Syria, the former president reveals in his memoirs. Bush, in the 497-page Decision Points, a copy of which was obtained by the Guardian in advance of its publication in the US tomorrow, writes of Iran: "I directed the Pentagon to study what would be necessary for a strike." He adds: "T
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